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US
/ˈpɹɛvəɫənt/
]
[ UK /pɹˈɛvələnt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɛvələnt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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most frequent or common
prevailing winds
How To Use prevalent In A Sentence
- The HK entertainment sex scandal the story continues... or at least people are continuing to be baat, waiting to see if any new photos come out or what x or y will do next got me thinking... how prevalent are "casting couches" in Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and elsewhere? Archive 2008-02-24
- Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
- Trichuris was more prevalent in urban children, Ascaris and hookworm were more common in rural children, and hookworm was particularly rare in the urban area.
- To keep informed about the most prevalent hoaxes, you can add a free Sophos information feed to your own website or intranet.
- However, many other policewomen have quit under pressures from a community in which fundamental Islam is prevalent. Fighting is cultural, criminal for Afghan policewomen
- Despite the prevalent view that aesthetic perception of the Romantic period is also marked by this "diffusive" touch — as in Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
- Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
- The subspecialty of female urology is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of those urinary tract disorders most prevalent in females. Female Urologists
- The effects of UV on microorganisms growing under conditions prevalent during the early Precambrian Aeon are examined.
- Violins and clarinets were used in instrumental combinations in all areas, with the bagpipe (ubiquitous since the Middle Ages) prevalent in Bohemia, and the double bass and dulcimer in Moravia.