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UK
/pɹɪdˈɒmɪnˌeɪt/
]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɑməˌneɪt, pɹɪˈdɑmənət/ ]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɑməˌneɪt, pɹɪˈdɑmənət/ ]
VERB
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be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
Money reigns supreme here
Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood -
appear very large or occupy a commanding position
The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain
Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall
ADJECTIVE
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having superior power and influence
the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism
How To Use predominate In A Sentence
- A number of the predominately male workforce have twenty-four years service with the company.
- The White Shadow – A unique series that took a rather real look at urban life among predominately minority teen-agers. Hulu Awards: Johnny Jay’s Final Wrap Up and Best of Hulu
- The impression of warmth and comfort and beauty predominated, though he was unable to analyze it; while the simplicity delighted him -- expensive simplicity, he decided, and most of it leftovers from the time her father went broke and died. Chapter XVIII
- A beer in which neither the sweetness of the malt nor the bitterness of the hops predominates.
- Old rocks predominate and high hills and mountains are more common.
- However, when an emergency occurs, the curled varieties will be found suitable for cooking, and the broad-leaved for salading, and therefore there need be no waste where one sort predominates. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
- This may be related to the presence of relatively large, probably late-diagenetic pyrite clusters in the bituminous limestones, whereas smaller framboids and crystals predominate in the black shales.
- The Fang, the most prevalent and warlike of these tribes, predominated.
- Of the five local opinions sought on the operations of the Council, traffic and parking gripes predominated.
- Where fixed property became the chief form of livelihood, monogamy, rather than polygamy, came to predominate due to the need to limit heirs and to discourage divorce.