Usually means: To be the most influential.
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  1. predominate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. predominate: Merriam-Webster
  3. predominate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. predominate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. predominate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. predominate: Vocabulary.com
  7. predominate: Wordnik
  8. predominate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. predominate: Wiktionary
  10. predominate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. predominate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. predominate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Predominate, predominate: Dictionary.com
  14. predominate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Predominate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. predominate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. predominate: Rhymezone
  18. Predominate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. predominate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. predominate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. predominate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. predominate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. predominate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. predominate: Legal dictionary

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  1. predominate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
verb:  (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
verb:  (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
adjective:  (sometimes proscribed) Predominant.

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