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as in domination
controlling power or influence over others
although Napoléon had achieved dominance over the European continent, Great Britain still ruled the waves
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as in superiority
the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance
the university was recognized for its dominance in the field of ancient Greek history
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Recent Examples of dominance
Instead of maintaining sustained dominance on both sides, the Chargers (5-3) passed the baton between the offense and defense.
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Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Existing distribution structures are facing considerable uncertainty in part due to the dominance of streaming.
—Kathy A. McDonald, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
Match 2 of quarterfinals: Texas sweeps gender doubles, drops a 34-32 heartbreaker in Mixed, but closes out the win behind Alshon's dominance to force match 3.
Match 3 of quarterfinals: Alshon comes up big again, and this time Texas sweeps mixed to win the match and advance.
—Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
However, labor strikes and civil disobedience actions began to challenge their dominance.
—Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Existing distribution structures are facing considerable uncertainty in part due to the dominance of streaming.
—Kathy A. McDonald, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
Match 2 of quarterfinals: Texas sweeps gender doubles, drops a 34-32 heartbreaker in Mixed, but closes out the win behind Alshon's dominance to force match 3.
Match 3 of quarterfinals: Alshon comes up big again, and this time Texas sweeps mixed to win the match and advance.
—Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
However, labor strikes and civil disobedience actions began to challenge their dominance.
—Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dominance
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Beyond baseball, New York still held cultural domination.Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Paris Hilton, Martha Stewart, and More Celebrities with Unique Names for Their Famous Dogs Max's domination of naming charts started before 2022.Kelli Bender, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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The wholesale engulfing of the myth of white superiority is what makes that kind of violence.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The film explores how the extremists combine violence, threatened or actual, with sophisticated social media campaigns to bring their pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority to the mainstream.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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Meta’s Llama was touted as the top open model, where OpenAI’s closed models are obviously close to the curve of model supremacy.John Werner, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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In the fight for smartphone supremacy, AI is becoming the new battleground.Paul Monckton, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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An actor’s reputation can sometimes feel like a heavy yoke; in Gladiator II, Denzel tosses it off and has a blast, taking the audience with him.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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All that and a hometown hero whose reputation in the world of DJ culture rests primarily on his role in defining the art of the mashup mashing things up between while opening the show and serving as de facto MC?Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Glimpses of past traumas and ongoing tribulations are thrown into balance the full breadth of a character striving to solidify her dominion.Holly Jones, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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Spain’s colonial tenure ended in the twilight years of the nineteenth century with the emergence of the United States as a world power, hungry for its own offshore dominions.Jon Lee Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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But soon, the Paul brothers came to represent a new paradigm, in which distinctions between the online world and the offline world became more blurred.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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Nearly 200 Michigan employers have earned the distinction of being named Michigan Top Workplaces for 2024.Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2024
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You’re definitely not allowed to claim sovereignty.Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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This resilience not only reduces downtime but also supports compliance with strict data sovereignty and regulatory requirements, making Azure Local a robust solution for mission-critical environments.Janakiram MSV, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The primacy that Netanyahu accords self-preservation over national security and even social cohesion is increasingly demoralizing the broad swath of the population that make up the backbone of Israel’s citizen army and modern economy.Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
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While pulling Japanese companies more toward the West’s primacy on investor value, directionally right for building the resolute model, the performance consequences for investors have been more equivocal.Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Dominance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dominance. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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