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The multi-million dollar boats themselves are extraordinary, eye-opening craft, Alinghi 5 resembling an enormous praying mantis and BMW Oracle's boat, USA, a hollowed-out Batmobile -- unrecognizable from the keel boats that had predominated.

From Reuters • Feb. 4, 2010

And it was this feeling which had predominated during the lady's homeward drive, and the half hour's tête-à-tête, before dinner, which she had utilized for an exchange of confidences with her son.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher

Hitherto a sense of strangeness and wonder had predominated; a morbid curiosity and a desire for sensationalism had possessed the minds and hearts of those who had witnessed the trial.

From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph

Up to now, distrust of Beaumaroy had predominated.

From The Secret of the Tower by Hope, Anthony

For a moment or two these had predominated, but as he realized that he was free, he could hardly keep from shouting for joy.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend