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- adjective Common misspelling of
prevalent .
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Some laptops (especially desktop replacements and Macs) have DVI (or mini-DVI) ports on them, and HDMI ports are becoming more and more prevalant.
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These psychological tactics are well known among the ranks of military and political strategists, and it is no accident that “xenophobia” is prevalant in the Republican party, as the likes of Karl Rove, David Horowitz, and Charles Krauthammer are directing the media orchestra of their party.
Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’ 2010
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Avinash Desai writes: dumping is quite a prevalant practice. especially when the exporting country is not a free market economy. when there is no or little competition in the exporting country's domestic market, price is greater than average cost. this monopolistic situation the domestic market allows the firms to reduce the prices in the international market substantially, or in other words, to dump.
Time to Dump "Dumping"?, Michael Munger | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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At one point drunkenness was so prevalant that beer was promoted as a temperance drink.
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CKD is an increasingly prevalant condition affecting more than 50 million adults world-wide.
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I live, work and socialise with Afrikaaners, Zulu's, Sotho, Xhosa's and have never once encountered the racist attitude you say is so prevalant.
Sound Off: Clint Eastwood's Invictus - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Today, technology has become so prevalant that queries such as YouTube live inauguration, live blogging inauguration, inaugural podcast, and Obama inaugural speech mp3 formed one-third of all inauguration-related queries.
"This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?! 2009
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Today, technology has become so prevalant that queries such as YouTube live inauguration, live blogging inauguration, inaugural podcast, and Obama inaugural speech mp3 formed one-third of all inauguration-related queries.
Search findings from the U.S. presidential inauguration 2009
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Bald eagles and hawks are prevalant predators, feeding on the millions of sea birds that use the islands and rocks as rookeries.
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As a matter of fact, since class society was formed, I'll bet that so many rebels, heretics, anarchists, whatever you want to call them, have been killed off that the gene is less prevalant now.
OpEdNews - Diary: Dog Training; Bottom Up? Top Down? And is it a metaphor for our culture? 2009
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