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dominant

[dom-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdɒm ə nənt /




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This sentiment pattern at market tops suggests that the dominant emotion leading up to market tops is exhaustion and even indifference.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Rama has been in power for 13 years, and has been a dominant figure in Albanian politics since the turn of the century.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But when just one stock accounts for so much of their endowment gains, it’s more likely that luck played the dominant role.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“AI is not only the economy, but it has become the equity market and a dominant force in the bond market too,” Barclays strategists wrote in a recent note to clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She wrote the first hypothesis out on the board: “Sensitivity is heightened on your dominant side.”

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

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

And their dominants suppose themselves to be of one sort, and these of another.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe


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