prevailing

[US]/prɪ'veɪlɪŋ/
[UK]/pri'velɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. dominant; main; popular; widespread.

Phrases & Collocations

prevailing trend

prevailing opinion

prevailing wind

prevailing circumstances

prevailing rate

prevailing market price

prevailing party

prevailing price

Example Sentences

Plague was then prevailing in that city.

a prevailing atmosphere of distrust.

current fashions.See Synonyms at prevailing

a prevailing set of cultural values

Yellow is the prevailing color in her room.

He wore his hair in the prevailing fashion.

The prevailing wind trends east-northeast.

An excellent situation is prevailing in the foreing trade.

The prevailing current flows from east to west.

this crisis further compounded the prevailing atmosphere of gloom.

The prevailing opinion seems to be that a trade war can be averted if both countries make concessions.

The frailness of the child from the birth made her susceptible to every prevailing illness.

As the plane exited the storm into the prevailing southwesterlies, there was a rapid increase in both the head wind and updraught.

She wore her hair in the prevailing fashion and looked ever prettier.

Based on the same philosophical thought, comparative poetics and philosophical hermeneutics alike are a retrospect and transcension of scientism and positivism prevailing over the 19th century.

The formation of eulogistic poems has special cultural background: the prevailing of "Poems" and historic culture provided the context for the creation and acceptance of eulogistic poems.

The award shall be final, binding and shall apport the costs of arbitration to the losing Party, including reasonable lawyer's fees incurred by the prevailing Party.

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