dominant
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Legal experts and analysts said they don’t think the combination of Fox and Roku raises antitrust issues because neither dominant players in streaming and have businesses that complement each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Given Lando Norris took dominant wins in the Netherlands and Hungary, some teams believe McLaren might be favourites heading into this weekend, but McLaren themselves are not so sure.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
These occur when an individual gains a beneficial mutation that gives it an advantage over closely related individuals, allowing its descendants to become dominant.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
In his view, the deal “is about ensuring that no one becomes dominant in AI models and the services that are built on them.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
It is also clear for Mesoamerica’s staple grain of corn, which spread to become a dominant crop elsewhere in the Americas as well.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
In the former case the offspring will be all of the dominant form, while in the latter they will consist on the average of equal numbers of dominants and recessives.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
He considers the difficulty is equally hopeless whether we imagine the dominants to be due to some change internal to the organism or to the assumption of something from without.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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