How to Use predominance in a Sentence

predominance

noun
  • The tribe fought to maintain its predominance.
  • Any state that goes first is likely to have its own economic driver that will take predominance.
    — Miranda Green, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The market is also less liquid than bonds, partly due to a predominance of buy and hold investors.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Trust a country with a predominance of pale people to make the most believable self-tanner.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 30 Aug. 2017
  • In optics, at least, the predominance of female artists helps the Grammys.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Local bookstores were, at the time, folding en masse, and people were mad about the growing predominance of chain retail.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The predominance of the North in all this reflects the relative default of the South.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The predominance of the citizen-soldier in America is a thing of the past.
    — Steele Brand, Time, 20 Sep. 2019
  • This month, like last, features a predominance of courses built on grass arenas, with a wealth of space in which the competition can play out.
    — Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • Each wishes to claim predominance in its own near abroad, and politicians and pundits tend to address them separately.
    — Mike Coté, National Review, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The predominance of fine western art and Navaho rugs underlines the fact that Caan went cowboy some time ago.
    — Jean Vallely, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
  • Apart from the predominance of duffel bags and moving boxes, yellow ribbons and fatigues, his could be snapshots of any working-class home.
    — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
  • Analysis of the labradoodle genome revealed a predominance of poodle.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The predominance of a few Big Tech companies presents two kinds of challenges for Congress.
    — Adam J. White, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But the standout trend of the night was the predominance of vibrant neon dresses, suggesting the stars were ready to make a statement after a year and a half of lockdown.
    — Anna Haines, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Among the notable differences were the predominance of one-room schools, segregation, and the small number of high school students.
    — David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Sep. 2020
  • One of the things that distinguishes this collection is the predominance of separates.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 July 2022
  • The male predominance, consistent across the three years, remains unexplained.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • That delusion springs from American liberal elites’ failure to accept the fact of their own predominance.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The predominance of finance and the winner-take-all structure of the high-tech industry mean that disparities of wealth and power will only grow.
    — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Once football gets mentioned, heads turn with territorial rights at stake because of the predominance of football once the calendar turns to fall.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Bogle links the predominance of servants on-screen in the 1930s to the Great Depression.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The focus on the British variant is understandable, given its predominance among the variants.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • However, some thinkers, such as Herder and Denis Diderot, questioned sight’s predominance.
    — Chunjie Zhang, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The predominance of black on the runways seemed to acknowledge the human condition while at the same time showing us how the imagination can soar, even in times of sadness.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023
  • This isn’t a bad thing—perhaps even an improvement over the predominance of Liberace-ready watches offered in Geneva last year.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Cardinale’s blends are often referred to as mountain wines because of the predominance of high-altitude fruit in their compositions.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This is due to the predominance of tender offers in Europe in which there is usually a competitive bidding process in which the lowest-cost product wins out.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • China wants military predominance over the chain of islands that bracket the Asian mainland and stretch from the Aleutians to the Philippines.
    — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 18 June 2019
  • But expanding testing to other groups would make sure that the decline—and the predominance among MSM—is not ascertainment bias.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022

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