predominating

Example Sentences

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Interpretations of Islamic law vary widely across the Muslim world, with more moderate strains predominating.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2021

Now, with anxiety over what happens predominating, “That sort of thing is all gone.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2021

“Keeping your options open” is not usually the predominating theme of a happy wedding day.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2020

An opening scene in a secretarial pool has female employees chanting in unison—“I enclose an invoice for our services,” “I like your nails”—as the orchestra chatters and pulses around them, with high winds predominating.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

In the background was the reason the photographer wanted us outside—the family laundry with, of course, the diapers predominating.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey