reign supreme

verb

To be the most important or most prevalent.

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Meanings

verbreign supreme (third-person singular simple present reigns supreme, present participle reigning supreme, simple past and past participle reigned supreme)

present singular third person reigns supreme · participle present reigning supreme · participle past reigned supreme · past reigned supreme

  1. idiomaticTo be the most important or most prevalent.

    [A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme.

    2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8
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    During the month prior to writing this article I have made a series of journeys [...]. One was over a main line on which steam still reigns supreme on the principal trains and on which we had a fine run, fully up to the best standards of the locomotive class concerned.

    1961 July, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401
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