dominant
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In fact, γ-Fe was the dominant form of iron in the two impact-glass samples studied.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Kartal, 24, produced a dominant display to see off the Chinese 31st seed Wang 6-3 6-2 in only her second tour match after six months out with a back injury.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Private investment company ADUG, owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, bought City in 2008 and has transformed the club from also-rans into a dominant force.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Now, as the Yankees begin a best-of-three playoff series against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday, New York’s Cam Schlittler is the most dominant pitcher in the American League.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
After 8 beats, they can play a “G” which is the V or dominant of the C scale in order to create another goal.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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His day job involved explaining the arcane workings of second-inversion dominants and Neapolitan sixths to a class of puzzled undergraduates that included me.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2011
Throughout albums like Innervisions or Songs in the Key of Life you'll find plenty of what you might call 'jazz chords' – flattened 9ths and secondary dominants and extended blues progressions and all that business.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If now the F1 plant be crossed with the pure recessive, we are bringing together a series of gametes consisting of equal numbers of dominants and recessives with a series consisting solely of recessives.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
In a note, however, he suggests the possibility that there are no such things as new dominants.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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