dominant

They appeared on their way to another dominant defensive effort — until they weren’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

McBurnie played a slick one-two with the increasingly dominant Gilmour, who had his shot saved.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“To name someone the closer, you have to be one of the best. You have to be elite and dominant at what you do.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

A physically dominant performance and had a chance to score but headed over.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

While young minority men with little schooling have always had relatively high rates of incarceration, “before the 1980s the penal system was not a dominant presence in the disadvantaged neighborhoods.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Here the comparison with a steam engine with self-regulators and automatic whistles is admissible, and one may speak of dominants in the sense of mechanical dominants.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

Yet the children often are apt to segregate into pituitary dominants or pituitary deficients.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.