prepotent
Example Sentences
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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2017
Perhaps not since the full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the more prepotent the variety's own pollen could be rendered through natural selection, the greater the advantage would be.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
The minute a stud dog, perfect in himself, is prepotent to impress upon his offspring a defect in his ancestry, discard him at once.
From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Edward Axtell
Pearson the elder was hardly more prepotent than Mr. Lusk, the banker at home.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
