dominant
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It took off in earnest only after Israel’s victory in the 1967 war, in which the Jewish state proved it could be regionally dominant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
“The dominant part of our business is now U.S. commercial,” CEO Alex Karp told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Elliott’s quarterly letters are known for their doom-and-gloom commentary on the dominant themes of the day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Mercedes lost their dominant form in the second half of the season in the face of challenges from first McLaren and then Red Bull.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Their languages are of course much more numerous than the eight dominant Chinese languages of mainland China, but are no more diverse.
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
The term endocrine dominants brings up the inquiries of Mendelism, and the relation of Mendelian conceptions of dominant and recessive to the internal secretions.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
"And do you mean to say that a musician in this God-forsaken country must have no chords but tonics and dominants?" ejaculated Lancelot, hotly.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
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