as in dominance
the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance
the magazine's prepotency in the world of fashion is accepted without question
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Yet extreme geographic concentration – particularly China’s dominance of processing, accounting for 70% of refining on average across 19 of 20 strategic minerals – poses systemic risks that were brought into sharp relief by Beijing’s 2025 export controls on rare earths, gallium, and germanium.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
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After years of disinflationary pressures from globalization, productivity improvements, and technological efficiency gains— particularly in the US oil and gas business — the energy component of the consumer price index is reasserting dominance in a negative way.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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For years, the Red Bull driver was the benchmark – often cruising through races with rivals unable to challenge his superiority.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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America has gone to war many times with the hubris of superiority.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The market is full of vehicles that blur the line between a traditional e-bike and something closer to a motorcycle, and manufacturers don’t always make the distinction easy to spot.—
Sarah Raza,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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This distinction was missing both from popular discourse, the academics felt, and from an influential definition of antisemitism associated with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which lists numerous examples of antisemitism related to criticism of Israel.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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So others speculate and then the Heat somehow are the ones who get caught in the spin cycle of various insiders of various repute trying to sell Substack subscriptions or generate clicks or views.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Feb. 2026
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Two other veteran Dutch managers of significant repute had been in the reckoning, one of them a former boss of Manchester United.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2025
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Fetterman, by contrast, has built a reputation as an unpredictable but transactional-free vote, one guided more by instinct than negotiation.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Mar. 2026
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This was a dramatic turn after Starmer had sought a reputation as something of a Trump-whisperer — even if that went down badly with many Britons at home, failing to win discernible gains over the Ukraine war and Trump’s hostile pursuit of Greenland.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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Oman has close relations to Tehran, only two Gulf states recognize Israel, and competition between GCC members over supremacy on certain issues is fierce.—
Hadley Gamble,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Forget scientific exploration under the seas; this is a story about the half-shark son of Marko named Sharko, dolphin supremacy, and a look at Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal that makes the cannibalistic horror of the 300-year-old satire feel brand new.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Prepotency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepotency. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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