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prevailed

  • past participle
    of prevail.
    prevail
    verb (used without object)
    to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally.
  • past tense form
    of prevail.
    prevail
    verb (used without object)
    to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally.

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Breuer prevailed over Canadian Gen. Jennie Carignan, who would have been the first woman to hold the post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

But Catholic blocked the final extra-point attempt and prevailed 13-12.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The actual level of U.S. yields is in the range that prevailed from 2002 to 2006, before the global financial crisis ushered in years of abnormally low inflation and interest rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

But in my 2026 book, “Strikingly Similar,” I explore how, throughout the medieval period, the Renaissance and into the early modern era, an ethos of “imitatio” prevailed.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

It was the grave the runaways fought against, for that was their destination if these men prevailed and returned them to their master.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead