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The risk of catastrophic flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin has diminished as cool temperatures have predominated this spring, flattening the melt curve of the Sierra’s epic snowpack, state officials said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023

Spread offenses featuring three or four wideouts have predominated long enough that players now coming out of college were playing in them in Pop Warner.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2020

Residents say social issues play a role, but in recent years concerns about spending and taxes have predominated.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2012

But chances are he’ll spend most of his time supervising the old, and in particular the 19th-century classics, which to date have predominated the company’s repertory.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2011

The great exertions of the preceding disastrous war had so deranged her finances, that the wish to preserve peace seems to have predominated in her cabinet.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John