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

Since 1865, it is not unsafe to say, the centripetal, or gravitating, force has predominated to an extent ever more suggestive of increasing political uneasiness.

From "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 by Adams, Charles Francis

From the very beginning of human existence right down until now this fear of God has predominated.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn