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Meanings of predominate in English

Portuguese
predominar
Catalan
superar
Spanish
superar

To emerge; to be visible or larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance.

        predominar
        Portuguese
        erguer-se
        Catalan
        encastellar-se

        Appear very large or occupy a commanding position.

              erguer-se

              Having superior power and influence.

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                    Usage of predominate in English
                    1
                    However, he restricts his concern to primary schools, where female teachers predominate.
                    The Irish Times
                    2
                    Both across the world and in the Middle East, socioeconomic concerns predominate.
                    The Guardian
                    3
                    In any such view, the wild, the aboriginal, the geographical greatly predominate.
                    In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
                    4
                    One or more of the food-stuffs sometimes predominate in a single food.
                    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
                    5
                    With the Irish, feeling and passion predominate; reason must bow before them.
                    The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 / with a P...
                    6
                    In the matter, however, the German national features ought certainly to predominate.
                    Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
                    7
                    Big companies predominate and smaller entrepreneurs with a solid plan can thrive.
                    Wired
                    8
                    Its artifacts, institutions and practices predominate in Europe, North America and Australasia.
                    Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History
                    9
                    For men, the darker tints should predominate, and for women the warmer.
                    American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
                    10
                    Apples and pears predominate among the fruits, though all others do well.
                    A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washing...
                    11
                    In Tunisia, the A-African and the B-Mediterranean mutations predominate the mutational spectrum.
                    Pubmed
                    12
                    Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals.
                    Life of Johnson, Volume 4 / 1780-1784
                    13
                    Foreign and native immigrants predominate in the Negro population of the City.
                    The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress
                    14
                    Which will predominate in five hundred years, the Saxon or Latin races?
                    Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ...
                    15
                    When she grew to woman's estate, which of the races would predominate?
                    The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
                    16
                    Recently, however, the more somber elements in Hardman's personality had begun to predominate.
                    The Drowned World
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