predominate

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Recent Examples of predominate Black and Latino visitors predominate, but on Friday afternoons a cohort of Orthodox Jewish children pack in before the Sabbath, emptying shelves of picture books like Yitzi and the Giant Menorah and A Synagogue Just Like Home. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 May 2025 In the mid-twentieth century, however, liberalism began to predominate to such an extent that republicanism, and its concern with the civic consequences of economic choices, largely faded from view. Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025 Red, white and jack pines are the predominate evergreens in this forest in Marinette and Oconto counties in northeastern Wisconsin. Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024 Musically, strings predominate, played with simplicity and sensitivity, serving as a perfect canvas to highlight his voice. Griselda Flores, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for predominate
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Adjective
  • But the predominant theme of the debate was Cuomo facing attacks from the eight other candidates, who laced into him on everything from public safety and education to affordable housing production and the ex-governor’s integrity.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
  • Apparently natural selection among the Uru, Aymara and Quechua peoples of the Bolivian Altiplano took DNA sequences that are present but rare in other populations around the world and increased their frequency to the point where the normally uncommon sequences are predominant in these groups.
    Kermit Pattison, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Homelessness is certainly a major problem, said Julie Hayden, CEO of the East County Transitional Living Center, the area’s main shelter.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025
  • The golden flying snake bears two main color morphs — a green-yellow form sports bold black streaks and occasional reddish dorsal spots, and another form where the same base hues are overlaid with subtler crossbars.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • Joe Schoen and Daboll already are giving a ton of key players days and weeks off this spring, limiting the football that some of their primary contributors are playing.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
  • Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo speaks during a primary debate on June 4 in New York.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Five years after the first trial in 1342, Hugh Colne was convicted of being one of the men to stab Forde in the stomach and sentenced to the notorious Newgate Prison.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
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    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 6 June 2025

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“Predominate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predominate. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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