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Six example sentences with predominant, each labelled with its topic.
Cardamom is the predominant flavour in the broth, and everything else is there only to keep it company.
Cooking
Spruce became the predominant tree after the fire, crowding out the birch that had covered the slope before.
Environment
Blue is predominant across the late canvases, with small strokes of ochre appearing only near the horizon line.
Art
Services are now the predominant share of output, with manufacturing shrinking to a fifth of the total.
Economics
The predominant rhythm in the piece is a slow triple time, though it hides for two bars in the middle.
Music
Anxiety was the predominant emotion in the survey, named by half the students ahead of boredom or anger.
Psychology
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