dominate
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In counties where Crowley was expected to dominate, such as Milwaukee, Hong performed better than expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
China has repeatedly shown that it can dominate industries where scale, speed and cost matter most.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Every new fossil found in this context helps reconstruct how terrestrial ecosystems reorganized after the Permian–Triassic extinction and how the groups that would later dominate the continents emerged.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
This last-minute legitimization would later allow Sand to legally inherit her father’s estate; it also established the uneasy balance between respectability and impropriety that would come to dominate her life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He watched his daughter’s daemon rise and dominate her: her eyebrows, like his, were lifted, the heavy-lidded eyes beneath them grew round, and one corner of her mouth was raised dangerously.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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A cartoonish monument depicting a certain oafish world leader dominates the intersection outside.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
For more than two decades, two ISAs have dominated mainstream computing: x86, which powers most personal computers and servers, and Arm, which dominates smartphones and is expanding into cars, defense systems and artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The social media giant dominates the market for smart glasses, which allow people to capture photos and videos, listen to music, take phone calls and ask questions to an artificial intelligence assistant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
According to Elisabetta Iorfida, ESA's Swarm Mission Scientist, the Pacific reversal challenges the idea that stable westward circulation dominates the outer core.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
In America, we live in a world where Kim Kardashian dominates the news, not massacres in Africa.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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The right-hander dominated the bowling in crashing 10 fours and seven sixes in a superb 123 from 76 balls in Lancashire's 443-6.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Recently, capital expenditures in the U.S. have been dominated by AI-related spending.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
In coastal areas, people and dogs often ate similar diets dominated by marine foods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the U.S., the business of grid-scale energy storage in batteries is dominated by Tesla’s Energy division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
We know that the surface is dominated by silicates, which are relatively light and not heavy enough to account for the planet’s overall density.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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For Brook to outshine both Marsh and Rickelton, when the pair were so ruthlessly dominating Spirit's bowlers, indicates just how special his knock was.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“They all came in at huge weights, and where they are in terms of the market capitalization, they are now dominating this value benchmark.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
If you believe a handful of companies will keep dominating technology, invest — but still do the research yourself.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“What happened in recent days in Zacatecas is one more indication that ... criminality remains present, dominating territory, with links to local governments,” wrote columnist Carlos Puig in Mexico’s Milenio news outlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Descendants of those societies that achieved centralized government and organized religion earliest ended up dominating the modern world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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