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Recent Examples of dominance Blake Snell’s postseason dominance didn’t extend to Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night. Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025 Many people feel that Israel has lost its dominance and its impact in Gaza. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025 Part of the reason for US dominance is SpaceX's development of both reusable rockets and heavy lift capabilities. New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025 And part of him seems to want to trash it out of rage at the limits to his dominance. Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dominance
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Noun
  • After a slow opening two weeks, the explosive plays are back for Mahomes and the Chiefs, culminating in their 31-0 domination of the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Matthew Stafford put together an incredible performance in the Los Angeles Rams’ 35-7 domination of the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Sunday.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Europeans, including Las Casas initially, claimed superiority as Christians, as most of the Africans Europeans encountered were either Muslim or animist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Their innovation is to replace the demagogue’s roar with the bureaucrat’s moral superiority.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So the method here is to co-opt the hysterical semiotics of alt-righters for sickle supremacy.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Or will Sora 2 just be a flash in the pan that fails to weaken Meta’s social media supremacy?
    Paulina Likos, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has earned a reputation as a hardliner on immigration, an image that helped propel her to power amid rising nationalist sentiment and debate over Japan’s identity amid demographic decline.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Garlic, onion, and ginger have earned a reputation for supporting heart health, circulation, and healthy cholesterol levels.
    Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But what kind of democracy could that system be, which perpetuated colonial dominion by securing all the key elements to benefit France: the monetary system, foreign affairs, education, business, and much more.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The biggest distinction is that symptoms leading up to menopause last for a much longer time, while postpartum symptoms will lessen over weeks and months post-birth.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 27 Oct. 2025
  • With that distinction in mind, though, the Smithsonian's communications with Congress might not be considered lobbying, as the lawmakers' letter accuses.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Their vision of Canadian sovereignty, linked to the preservation of social democracy and protected from American influence, was simply no longer relevant.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Taiwan, under President Lai Ching-te, has asserted its sovereignty in new and destabilizing ways, casting its political system as separate from and threatened by the mainland’s.
    STEPHEN WERTHEIM, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scholar Mary Jane Edwards is one who asserts the book’s primacy.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The twin bases of the American experiment in political pluralism—the fable about the United States as a land of immigrants and the reality of unchallenged global primacy—are simultaneously crumbling.
    Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Dominance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dominance. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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