dominant
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The team set a moonshot goal: developing a single, universal protein “minibinder” that could neutralize five dominant scorpion neurotoxins across different species.
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
One provider is likely to emerge as a dominant player as the quantum computing industry matures, Hazra said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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
In the 1930s rowing was the second most popular Olympic event—after track and field— and in the preliminaries Germany had shown every sign of being highly competitive, if not dominant, in this year’s medal round.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
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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
In a note, however, he suggests the possibility that there are no such things as new dominants.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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