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adjective

predominant

present as the strongest or main element

In a sentence

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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