dominant
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After an utterly dominant first half, the Spurs led by 29 points in the third quarter—a deficit no team competing for an NBA championship had ever recovered from.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Beck hails from the southern tip of New Zealand, a country whose dominant industries are dairy products and tourism.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
All three films celebrate highly dominant male protagonists who project raw power, aggression and emotional intensity.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
She is surely on course to break her major duck sometime soon and in California last Sunday it was only the brilliance of a dominant world number one that bettered the British star.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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