predominant

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[ UK /pɹɪdˈɒmɪnənt/ ]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɑmənənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having superior power and influence
    the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism
  2. most frequent or common
    prevailing winds
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How To Use predominant In A Sentence

  • This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
  • Research forms the predominant part of my job.
  • A varietal is a wine made predominantly from one specific grape and is labeled as such, for example, California Merlot.
  • Burundi and Rwanda are predominantly agricultural economies with their primary exports being coffee and tea.
  • And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
  • Since the feminine is out of balance in the female body and the predominant culture, women are not receiving the nurturance they need to fuel their outer work. Wild Feminine
  • Thylakoids of grana stacks are mostly abundant in PSII complexes, while PSI complexes are predominant in stroma lamellae.
  • The predominant opinion voiced by Detroit's Arab population seems to be one of frustration.
  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
  • The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
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