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The USC-bound Palmer had prevailed on every occasion, including a 55-42 victory in a divisional high school championship game that was widely considered the best in Orange County history.

It was The Onion's bid that prevailed, though it declined to tell news outlets how much it paid.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Trump prevailed despite a significant gender gap between female and male voters, with Trump’s opponents expressing deep distress over his victory while his supporters publicly gloated about those same people's pain.

In seven of the 10 states where abortion rights measures were on the ballot, they prevailed.

But California finally prevailed, and in the process it began an environmental movement that changed the world for the better.