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Examples
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There is a superpower that is always acting prepotently, yet it lacks the strength of character necessary under certain circumstances, and has no ethics; it is dangerous.
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Perhaps the great cerebral sponge, beginning and end of that mysterious circle, had prepotently sucked up all the vital forces, and itself consumed in a brief time all that was meant to suffice the whole system for a long period.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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You just saw how a single exciting word may call up its own associates prepotently, and deflect our whole train of thinking from the previous track.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876
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In the three novels mentioned above he prepotently defends the emphasis; in
The Guardian World News Martin Amis 2009
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