- present participle of dominate.
dominating
Example Sentences
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With movies like “Obsession” and “Backrooms” already dominating the early-summer box office, the industry is rethinking its iron-grip commitment to regurgitating the same films audiences have seen 100 times before, in slightly different ways.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
Those teams featured dominating pass rusher Chris Jones, so McDuffie knows how a player such as Garrett enables the defense to “flip the script” and attack offenses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Ipsos showed Fujimori dominating the capital Lima, carrying the urban vote and the coast, while Sánchez swept the rural vote and the mountainous Andes regions.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Polls show Sanchez and Fujimori separated by only a few percentage points, with crime and insecurity dominating voter concerns.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The city was already dominating its neighbors; in 546, Yuknoom Ch’een’s apparent successor supervised the coronation of a five-year-old monarch in nearby Naranjo.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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