predominate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.

   • With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.
   • These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.
2. 2

   To be prominent

   To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.

   • All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.
   • Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.
3. 3

   To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage

   To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

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   1. 4

      Predominant.

      • Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study.

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• synonympreponderate
• synonymprevail