dominant

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The dominant sentiment among central bankers is that if you don’t act resolutely, those pressures build up.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

If traditional market economics were in play, patients would have immediately switched to the lower-priced alternatives, forcing AbbVie to lower Humira’s price or face losing its dominant market share in the U.S.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Imagine if an activist investor had pressured Jeff Bezos to stop sacrificing profits for growth or Steve Jobs to forget taking on the dominant BlackBerry with his iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Although Google is the dominant search engine, ChatGPT is sending more visitors than Google's built-in AI.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

By the eleventh century CE, Christianity in the form of Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe, and church leaders held a great deal of political power.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz