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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of predominate.

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  • And although sex and romance titles predominated, buyers could also choose from action, adventure, supernatural, and other genres, most selling for 500 to 1,000 yen (about $4 to $8) apiece.

    Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex 2007

  • And although sex and romance titles predominated, buyers could also choose from action, adventure, supernatural, and other genres, most selling for 500 to 1,000 yen (about $4 to $8) apiece.

    Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex 2007

  • (here the ludicrous expression predominated); "hope you'll be comfortable, sir" (here he nearly burst into a laugh); "show you into master's study, sir, directly" (here he became preternaturally grave again); and, opening the study door, ushered me into the presence of the dreaded tutor.

    Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835

  • Herein lies the great difference between migration in empty or sparsely inhabited regions, such as predominated when the world was young, and in the densely populated countries of our era.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • Herein lies the great difference between migration in empty or sparsely inhabited regions, such as predominated when the world was young, and in the densely populated countries of our era.

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • At the new urban dance halls, where “working girls” predominated, the liberal use of rouge, powder, and lipstick was an “almost universal custom.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • In the 1980s, when the secular, left-leaning Palestine Liberation Organization predominated as the Palestinian political force, Israeli intelligence funneled some aid to Hamas (descended from the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood), a fundamentalist group, in hopes of dividing and ruling the Palestinians.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Risk of Catastrophic Success In Gaza 2009

  • Mahela Jayawardene and Ian Bell have both produced a series of scintillating innings, the former in the limited overs game, Bell in Tests, when their combination of Gene Kelly footwork, Pinball-Wizard supple wrists and gorgeous timing have given us a glimpse of an age before athleticism, doggedness and beefy bats predominated.

    VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age 2011

  • Unlike in previous years, when a belt shape such as skinny predominated, there are many shapes and styles—wide, narrow, chain, string, hip and waist belts.

    The Tyranny of the Belt Christina Binkley 2012

  • One poll in September 1991 found small pluralities in Moscow and large cities opposed to the transfer to Russia of territories in other republics where Russians predominated the Crimea, Donbass, and Northern Kazakhstan were mentioned; in small towns and rural areas, the votes for and against such annexations were equal.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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