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
The element of hope has predominated, but now comes a visitor who wishes to see me upon the one part of my duties and responsibilities which is distasteful to me—the exercise of patronage.
From Ireland In The New Century by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
For in all the reports which I have seen of the religious instruction communicated in that highly articulate manner, Calvinism, high and low, has predominated.
From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
