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dominated

verb

past tense of dominate

as in conquered

to bring under one's control by force of arms by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe

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as in overlooked

to look down on the ruined fortress dominates the town

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Recent Examples of dominated About 95% of early voters also cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, a reminder that the first wave is dominated by more regular voters and not newcomers. — Charles Minshew, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Hyde-Smith, first appointed and then elected in 2018, is running for reelection in a state Republicans have long dominated. — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 However, there aren’t always multiple options like in Europe, and many of these secondary airports are dominated by carriers like Southwest. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026 Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is donating $80 million to boost Democratic candidates, marking a last-minute entry in a US midterm cycle dominated by big spenders. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026 SpaceX and xAI merged in February and the company has been pouring money into its effort to become a major player in AI, a market dominated by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026 Wealthy buyers who can afford to buy their homes outright are more likely to buy in cash, so the luxury real estate market is usually dominated by cash sales. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026 The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, dominated Ethiopia’s government from 1991 until Abiy took power in 2018. — Khaled Kazziha, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026 Van Cleef & Arpels dominated the bracelet category, with its Vintage Alhambra taking first place followed by the Hermès Clic Clac and the Cartier Love. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

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From Ricky Martin’s Grammy breakthrough to the rise of música mexicana, Tommy Mottola and Alex Gallardo offered a candid look at how Latin music conquered the mainstream — and why its next evolution will depend on artists willing to break the mold.

— Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2026
The announcement comes after a summer in which AI models have repeatedly conquered many of math’s longstanding open challenges, including one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.

— Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026

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The service Employees are beautiful, plentiful and delightful, with a high staff-to-resident ratio that keeps guests from feeling overlooked, although communication between departments could be better.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
One reason why the shop floor has been overlooked is because the enterprise software industry has focused most heavily on developing digital transformation solutions for corporate functions that are very similar from one company to the next.

— Naveen Poonian, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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Locker room celebrations in the NFL tend to be subdued until the Super Bowl, and since hockey players are famously superstitious, popping bottles early is practically verboten in the NHL; the Stanley Cup is all that really matters.

— Don Riddell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
The interplay between the vocal harmonies phasing from side to side is clear, though the upper melody sounds subdued during the track's busier sections.

— Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

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According to prosecutors, intelligence officers attacked him from behind, causing a serious back injury, and subsequently subjected him to electric shocks.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
We are subjected daily to the caprices of a mind both unregulated and amoral.

— David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026

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French defeated Republican incumbent Jim Wright in a May Republican primary runoff.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
That’ll be particularly important after Paxton defeated Cornyn in a brutal primary where Senate Republicans and other Cornyn allies spent more than $90 million in his defense and attacked Paxton as unfit for office.

— Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026

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