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predominate en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/
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Etymology
From Latin praedominātus, past participle of praedominor. By surface analysis, pre- + dominate.
Meanings
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(proscribed, sometimes) 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.
1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105, number 3, page 637:
Forms
Deriveds
predominately
predominate en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Latin praedominātus, past participle of praedominor. By surface analysis, pre- + dominate.
Meanings
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(intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.
2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021: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.
2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019:
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(intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack.
1887 March 1, “SHOTS THROUGH A WINDOW.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.
1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215:All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:
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(transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
Forms
Deriveds
predominatingly
Synonyms
preponderate · prevail
Translations (3)
es predominar (to dominate, succeed by superior numbers) · pt predominar (to dominate, succeed by superior numbers) · pt predominar (to be prominent)