predominate
verb (used without object)
to be the stronger or leading element or force.
has predominated
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present perfectof predominate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In Tulsa, the desire to forget has predominated.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021
And so another approach, known as neural networks, or machine learning, has predominated in the past two decades or so.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
All too often, alas, a deficit does both, and economists divide diametrically on which effect has predominated lately.
From Time Magazine Archive
As that has been made easy or difficult the offensive or the defensive has predominated.
From War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Your mother has predominated in you; you have her fine intelligence, and you have also something of her coquetry, at times of her indolence and of her submissiveness.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
