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n. - The quality of being more noticeable than anything else.

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  • A predominance of boys in the class did not intimidate the girls during classroom discussion.
  • The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
  • The assertion was that the environment that 'caused' the dark variety to gain predominance was evidenced in the genome.
  • "I have no doubt that, in the long run, this will change radically but in the short term the predominance of white males seems to me to be unavoidable."
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