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UK
/pɹɪpˈɒndəɹənt/
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ADJECTIVE
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having superior power and influence
the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism
How To Use preponderant In A Sentence
- The preponderant influence of these players speaks to something else about the nature of football, a characteristic that lends the game a persistently subversive, rebellious quality.
- What is more, the Church enjoyed a preponderant influence in the daily lives of Italians, literally from the cradle to the grave.
- To Mead, the majority population bore preponderant responsibility for the landscape's condition.
- Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.” A Renegade History of the United States
- Yellow was the preponderant color in the room.
- In youth passion is preponderant.
- Initially, at least, the preponderant view was that any alternative to bipolarity was likely to be some variation on multipolarity, with all of its depressing implications.
- As an archipelagic state, Indonesia is understandably wary of China becoming the preponderant maritime power in the Asia Pacific. Jakarta's Year of Leading Diplomatically
- Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.” A Renegade History of the United States
- And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society …. Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda