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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reign supreme en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To be the most important or most prevalent.
    • During the month prior to writing this article I have made a series of journeys [...]. One was over a main line on which steam still reigns supreme on the principal trains and on which we had a fine run, fully up to the best standards of the locomotive class concerned. 1961 July, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401:
    • [A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:

Forms

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reigns supreme Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reigned supreme Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reigned supreme Tense=Past lexicographic
reigning supreme Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic