Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prevailed (upon)
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Spirit’s unionized pilots have publicly urged the airline’s major lenders to back the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, warning liquidation would severely impact the local economy.—
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Since September, the authority had urged Maersk to make a return to the waterway as part of a wider appeal to the industry to being traffic back to the canal.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Jan. 2026
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Simpson is a Miami target, according to 247Sports, and the Hurricanes previously convinced Ward and Beck to back out of the draft and play for UM instead.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
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While Block is in the fourth grade, after his family moves from Indiana to Texas, his mother withdraws him from school, convinced that a traditional academic environment will stifle his budding writerly gifts.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Aamir Tinwala, a middle-schooler living through pandemic isolation, begged his parents for a pet.—
Ruby Mellen,
Washington Post,
10 Jan. 2026
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As a kid in Rochester, New York, Kane begged his parents for a dollar to play.—
Anna Rahmanan,
thehustle.co,
9 Jan. 2026
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Hailey began leaking amniotic fluid and had to be induced.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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This breakthrough uses induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to create a genetically identical miniature ecosystem.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Jan. 2026
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But the demonstrations are diffuse and largely leaderless, and Pezeshkian’s efforts at mediation — and the killings and arrests by security forces — have not persuaded the protesters to stay off the streets.—
Henry Austin,
NBC news,
7 Jan. 2026
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The paintings worked because viewers did not need to be persuaded that these scenes mattered.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Padres, early on, implored the mayor and City Council to remove Petco Park from the tourism wage mandate, arguing that the team is already subject to the city’s living wage ordinance, which imposes a higher wage floor than the citywide minimum wage.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Dec. 2025
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Larry Ivory, the president of the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce, implored the commissioners in November to review their selection process for the software vendor.—
Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The lowest two floors will be 90 feet apart as initially proposed, Bertao said.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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Dark stars are hypothetical objects that are proposed to have existed in the early universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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Other lyrics, like one in which Blow exhorted a girl in brown to stop messin’ around, bore the stamp of the rapper himself.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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In the old days, children were exhorted to be good because God sees all.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Prevailed (upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevailed%20%28upon%29. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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