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Example Sentences
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"There is a tendency for anxious parents to become caught up in a prevailing media panic and see all adolescent brains as simply hardwired for social media addiction," he says.
From BBC
Had Sony prevailed, Cox might have had to terminate internet access for many innocent users to protect itself from lawsuits.
The company’s stock is down 31% since Feb. 27, when the company prevailed in the Warner auction.
From Los Angeles Times
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said this is the first time a state has prevailed at trial against a major tech company for harming young people.
Such talk rattles many here who grew up in a country where government buildings still bear the revolutionary motto: “Homeland or death, we will prevail.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
