Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Prevailingly; powerfully; with predominance or superiority.
- Currently; generally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a prevalent manner.
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- adverb Generally,
usually , mainly.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although CNBC used to show her amazing body more prevalently she's still hot on Bloomberg.
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If you speak to some Modern Orthodox, Lubavitch or Traditional Jews of a certain age, you may see that they -- more prevalently than others -- use the phrase "kneine harah" (Yiddish) or "bli ayin harah" (Hebrew).
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2010
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Reid said that in a circumstance such as the one Virginia experienced with Dowling frequently out of the lineup this season, ideally, a defense would switch from using mostly man-to-man and quarters schemes to relying more prevalently on "hard corner forces," in which the cornerbacks are responsible for covering the flats and funneling receivers toward the middle of the field.
Virginia defense 'didn't show the improvement from week to week that we all anticipated' Steve Yanda 2010
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I'm fairly certain she completely missed the point that I was talking about a form of dry, ironic humor found much more prevalently in theUKthan you see inAmerica.
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If you speak to some Modern Orthodox, Lubavitch or Traditional Jews of a certain age, you may see that they -- more prevalently than others -- use the phrase "kneine harah" (Yiddish) or "bli ayin harah" (Hebrew).
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2010
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Reid said that in a circumstance such as the one Virginia experienced with Dowling frequently out of the lineup this season, ideally, a defense would switch from using mostly man-to-man and quarters schemes to relying more prevalently on "hard corner forces," in which the cornerbacks are responsible for covering the flats and funneling receivers toward the middle of the field.
Virginia defense 'didn't show the improvement from week to week that we all anticipated' Steve Yanda 2010
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His age was prevalently known throughout the movie, and basically the moral is, that even with age, Indiana still had it.
Indy filmmaking Stephen Whitty 2008
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Americans tend to be unaware that throughout today's Latin America, pictures of the revolutionary figure, Che Guevara, are prevalently displayed.
Colleen Turner: Transforming Strategic Communications to Fight Terrorism Since 1492 2008
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In defense of the teacher's word usage, 'ax instead of 'ask' is a colloquialism you hear in the South and in certain places in the North pretty prevalently.
"What Do You All Know About that War in Iraq?" - SpouseBUZZ 2008
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As if this wasn't bad enough, Thompson's campaign blog features links and excerpts of his commentary so prevalently they're as widely distributed as oxycodone HCl in Rush Limbaugh's bloodstream.
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