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Meanings of prevail in English
To emerge; to be visible or larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance.
Synonyms
Examples for "rule"
Examples for "rule"
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Thousands of documents have been made public under the 30 year rule.
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Officials have previously said security forces are following the rule of law.
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Industry trade groups reiterated concerns that the rule could have negative effects.
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Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said the new rule emphasized local control.
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History: 'Long live the men who bring us the rule of law!
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Working within the confines of the book, Nicholson was given free reign.
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Despite myriad methods on offer, however, the pill continues to reign supreme.
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Those laws date from King Henry VIII's reign, nearly 500 years ago.
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Confusion and concern can only be allowed to reign for so long.
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The case was widely different in the reign of Charles the First.
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Celine will no doubt dominate the charts way into the New Year.
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The crisis will dominate the first Cabinet meeting of the year tomorrow.
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Mr Johnson had compared the EU with Hitler's desire to dominate Europe.
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Foreign brands dominate the milk industry because of concerns about food safety.
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Furthermore, China is coming to dominate the supply of renewable energy technology.
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However, he restricts his concern to primary schools, where female teachers predominate.
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Both across the world and in the Middle East, socioeconomic concerns predominate.
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In any such view, the wild, the aboriginal, the geographical greatly predominate.
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One or more of the food-stuffs sometimes predominate in a single food.
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With the Irish, feeling and passion predominate; reason must bow before them.
Portuguese
prevalecer Catalan
prevaler Portuguese
triunfar Spanish
prevalecer Usage of prevail in English
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At some level of discontinuity, of course, Darwin's strong statement must prevail.
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And quite often, rules are not enforced and baddies do indeed prevail.
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I had thought good sense would prevail now that Vaughn was gone.
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Peace needs to prevail in South Sudan, he said in a statement.
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The gift of debate means the gift of making your opinion prevail.
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Still, analysts said given the thin trading volume, volatility will likely prevail.
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The latter will likely prevail, said INTL Chief Financial Officer Bill Dunaway.
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In all aspects of public communication, common sense and intelligence should prevail.
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Let a hundred mighty warriors come against us, still we shall prevail.
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No; that war in which ideas prevail is not fought with force.
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Even so, there are good reasons to think the Sounders will prevail.
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In time one or the other must prevail; Jon has willed it.
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Democratic strategists say that despite the demographic changes, Trump could still prevail.
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The Chinese people will surely prevail over all difficulties and challenges ahead.
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The two modes of the Government which prevail in the world, are:
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The conditions which prevail in the laboratory are never the standard conditions.
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Portuguese
Prevail through the time
Prevail across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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