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predominate

/pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt//pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/

verb

What it means

  1. intransitiveTo dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.

    These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.

    2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021
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    With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.

    2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019
  2. intransitiveTo be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.

    Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.

    1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215
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    All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296

    During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack.

    1887 March 1, “SHOTS THROUGH A WINDOW.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024
  3. transitiveTo dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

In a sentence

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.

2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019

Where it comes from

  1. Latinpraedominātus
  2. Englishpredominate

From Latin praedominātus, past participle of praedominor. By surface analysis, pre- + dominate.

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