1
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
Taylor Sheridan began his quest towards television dominance with Yellowstone, a sweeping saga about Montana's Dutton dynasty.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Jan. 2026
That dominance on both ends of the court enabled the Saints to pull away from Canyon in the fourth quarter and defeat the Comanches, 60-47, in a Crestview League game Friday at Canyon High School.
—Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
The tech world’s rise to its current economic dominance has been dizzyingly fast.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
At the time, a war was raging in Europe and the United States was seeking to assert its dominance in Latin America.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Jan. 2026
That dominance on both ends of the court enabled the Saints to pull away from Canyon in the fourth quarter and defeat the Comanches, 60-47, in a Crestview League game Friday at Canyon High School.
—Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
The tech world’s rise to its current economic dominance has been dizzyingly fast.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
At the time, a war was raging in Europe and the United States was seeking to assert its dominance in Latin America.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dominance
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Meanwhile, far from trending toward retail domination, US e-commerce growth is flattening.—
Greg Petro,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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As the 1950s rolled into the 1960s, more and more African countries were freeing themselves from European colonial domination; this wave of liberation prompted the emergence of liberation movements in South Africa and anti-apartheid protests.—
Eve Fairbanks,
The Dial,
27 Jan. 2026
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His team did not take the opportunity to fully exert their superiority against weakened opponents.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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Given their overall superiority in data transfer speeds and load times, SSD is generally the superior choice, though HDDs are just fine for less sensitive data.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Trump has taken this tradition to its logical extreme by exempting from legal consequences his supporters and those following his instructions—seeming to assert his supremacy over not just federal but state laws, which exceeds even the wide powers conferred by the Constitution.—
Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Conference supremacy After the SEC's 10 ranked teams, the Big Ten is next with seven.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Over time, these micro-touchpoints compound into reputation capital.—
Chris Lipp,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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But her thickened skin, along with her toughened reputation, felt supple now.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe broadcast news to parts of Eastern Europe that were under Communist dominion.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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His strong-arming of universities, law firms, and media companies is a response to real problems, but his actions seem aimed more at harming those entities—and expanding his dominion over them—than at crafting enduring fixes.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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The distinction is semantic, not economic.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Yeah, so the law has this long-standing distinction between what the lawyers would call prospective relief and retrospective relief.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The ruling on the injunction focused on the argument by Minnesota officials that the federal government is violating the Constitution’s 10th Amendment, which limits the federal government’s powers to infringe on the sovereignty of states.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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Those records were also used to aid federal assimilation efforts and chip away at tribal sovereignty, communal lands and identity.—
Graham Lee Brewer,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Our cities and neighborhoods have already sacrificed so much of their humanity to the primacy of the automobile.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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Who knows the reasons for this choice—band dynamics are a psychedelic kaleidoscope of competing imperatives—but whatever the case, by 2003’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Murdoch had been largely restored to creative primacy, on both that record and The Life Pursuit.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Pitchfork,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Dominance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dominance. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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