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“We were prevailing over the virus,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

President Obama, in an interview on 60 Minutes, indicated that cooler heads were prevailing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many stories were told among the villagers about Henry Schulte, for, like most all other localities, gossip and scandal were prevailing topics of conversation.

From Bucholz and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

The Royalist arms were prevailing in the West.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

The church instinctively felt that where these ideas were prevailing the whole ecclesiastical system was in danger, and tried to stop the movement.

From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Dobschutz, Ernst Von