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prevail
  1. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
  2. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
  3. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “But the new vocabulary and the concepts that went with it were part of the arsenal he needed in order to prevail over his rivals.”
      “He never gave up his faith that the family business would prevail.”
      “Sometimes belief seems to prevail, at other times doubt, but the important thing is to keep the conversation going.”
prevailing
prevails
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prevail
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The premise is that the major key always prevails and all minor keys should be sung in terms of the relative major.”
      “She talked both about the patriarchal autocracy that prevails in many households, and about the ways it affects women.”
      “Moreover, the wrong-headedness of this single text reveals some of the deeper sources of the confusion that prevails in contemporary education.”
prevaileth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of prevail
prevailest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of prevail
prevailed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prevail
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A warmish couple of rounds had placed him in contention, but ultimately his poor physical condition prevailed.”
      “These crucial means of breeding prevailed throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous times.”
      “I see that sanity has prevailed and this crazy and unnecessary idea has now been put into abeyance.”
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