How to Use predominance in a Sentence
predominance
noun- The tribe fought to maintain its predominance.
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The predominance of the North in all this reflects the relative default of the South.
—Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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The predominance of grease in the American kitchen, coupled with the habits of hasty eating . .
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
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The predominance of the citizen-soldier in America is a thing of the past.
—Steele Brand, Time, 20 Sep. 2019
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The main surprise was the predominance of accidents in good weather and good light on marked trails.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 17 May 2018
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But the standout trend of the night was the predominance of vibrant neon dresses, suggesting the stars were ready to make a statement after a year and a half of lockdown.
—Anna Haines, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
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The predominance of a few Big Tech companies presents two kinds of challenges for Congress.
—Adam J. White, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
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The predominance of fine western art and Navaho rugs underlines the fact that Caan went cowboy some time ago.
—Jean Vallely, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
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The market is also less liquid than bonds, partly due to a predominance of buy and hold investors.
—Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
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Trust a country with a predominance of pale people to make the most believable self-tanner.
—Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 30 Aug. 2017
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China wants military predominance over the chain of islands that bracket the Asian mainland and stretch from the Aleutians to the Philippines.
—Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 18 June 2019
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Any state that goes first is likely to have its own economic driver that will take predominance.
—Miranda Green, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
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Among the notable differences were the predominance of one-room schools, segregation, and the small number of high school students.
—David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Sep. 2020
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The first and most impactful phase was the Hegemonic: an attempt to use armed force to end challenges to American predominance.
—Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
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The predominance of black on the runways seemed to acknowledge the human condition while at the same time showing us how the imagination can soar, even in times of sadness.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023
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The predominance of finance and the winner-take-all structure of the high-tech industry mean that disparities of wealth and power will only grow.
—John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
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But expanding testing to other groups would make sure that the decline—and the predominance among MSM—is not ascertainment bias.
—Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
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Apart from the predominance of duffel bags and moving boxes, yellow ribbons and fatigues, his could be snapshots of any working-class home.
—Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
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Each wishes to claim predominance in its own near abroad, and politicians and pundits tend to address them separately.
—Mike Coté, National Review, 10 Mar. 2023
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The focus on the British variant is understandable, given its predominance among the variants.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
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This is due to the predominance of tender offers in Europe in which there is usually a competitive bidding process in which the lowest-cost product wins out.
—Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
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One of the things that distinguishes this collection is the predominance of separates.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 July 2022
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However, some thinkers, such as Herder and Denis Diderot, questioned sight’s predominance.
—Chunjie Zhang, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2020
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That delusion springs from American liberal elites’ failure to accept the fact of their own predominance.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2021
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Some meteorites show a slight predominance of left-handed amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, suggesting that the influence came from outer space.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
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Once football gets mentioned, heads turn with territorial rights at stake because of the predominance of football once the calendar turns to fall.
—Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2020
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Analysis of the labradoodle genome revealed a predominance of poodle.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
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The idea of red wine as a health elixir became popular in the 1980s with the observation that rates of coronary heart disease were low in France, despite the predominance of a diet relatively high in fat and cholesterol.
—Christie Aschwanden, chicagotribune.com, 3 Oct. 2019
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The timing of Everything is Love points to the couple's desire for dominion over the summer -- one already filled with high-profile releases -- and predominance over the culture.
—Max Cea, Billboard, 17 June 2018
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Newark’s very nickname, the Brick City, is because of the predominance of these massive housing projects that wealthier towns in New Jersey did not want in their communities or neighborhoods.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 June 2020
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