predominating

Verb

predominate (third-person singular simple present predominates, present participle predominating, simple past and past participle predominated)

1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
   • With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019
2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
   • All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296
3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

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