dominant
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Despite its heady valuation, SpaceX is the dominant player in both reusable commercial rockets and global satellite internet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The new unit, overseen by senior minister Louise Haigh, has been tasked with being the "dominant driver of the UK's economy".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
This has been the dominant policy mode across the West since the 2008 financial panic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
His new colleagues haven’t done anything to make him miss his best friends on the Detroit Tigers any less, but Skubal hasn’t exactly issued a dominant first impression, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
But we seek the dominant intelligences, the grandest creatures on the planet, the sentient and graceful masters of the deep ocean, the great whales.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
Our own expression upon evolution by successive dominants and their correlates is against it.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
In medical literature, however, there are numerous records of the spontaneous origin of various abnormalities which behave as dominants, such as brachydactyly, and Bateson considers the authenticity of some of these to be beyond doubt.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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