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
The mark of this prepotent previous man is left on the house from cellar to attic.
From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
When distinguishable individuals of the same family, or races, or species are crossed, we see that the one is often prepotent over the other in transmitting its own character.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
