dominant
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There always seems to be a strong influence in the media related to the dominant team of a previous era.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
For decades, the dominant model held that the entire brain develops from one early progenitor cell population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
It’s outperforming huge companies like Nvidia and Google on some metrics, while besting gold and the world’s dominant currencies on others.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The deepening ties also help North Korea counterbalance the historically dominant influence of its other neighbor across the Tumen—China—and diversify its foreign support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
At home, children are exposed to a family’s musical heritage, which may contain music unfamiliar to those in their dominant culture.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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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In medical literature, however, there are numerous records of the spontaneous origin of various abnormalities which behave as dominants, such as brachydactyly, and Bateson considers the authenticity of some of these to be beyond doubt.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
Right now they'll be concentrating in dreams and dream-empathy, in some of the newer Garlonian dances, Sarchian cooking for the receptives and Wortan fighting for the dominants.
From Earthsmith by Stephen Marlowe
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