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单词 preponderant
释义
preponderant
adjective
formal
uk
/prɪˈpɒn.dər.ənt/us
/prɪˈpɑːn.dɚ.ənt/
importantorlarge:
占优势的；多数的
Music does notplaya very preponderantrolein the school'steaching.音乐在学校教育中并未发挥很重要的作用。
Synonyms
overriding
predominant
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Very important or urgent
  • all-important
  • at all cost(s)idiom
  • be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
  • chief
  • clutch
  • co-principal
  • life-and-death
  • life-changing
  • mainly
  • major league
  • make the world go around/roundidiom
  • meaningful
  • pressing
  • prominent
  • radical
  • revalorization
  • revalorize
  • sacred
  • salient
  • subtle
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(Definition ofpreponderantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpreponderant

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Presence of females among the principal group in a multiple inhumation causes us to believe that women had apreponderantrole within the society.
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Apreponderantpower is immune from attack due to its superior capabilities.
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Thepreponderantpower of the central party is evident but it is not all-conquering.
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Still, abandon is such apreponderantidiom that the two terms ought to be distinguished.
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Yet states refrain from initiating war if a balance of power exists in which no single state or alliance of states has overwhelmingpreponderantpower.
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Although the aetiology is not fully understood, prostate cancer is known to increase with age and is morepreponderantin certain races.
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The one repeat class was, as expected, more oftenpreponderantthan previously, especially in panmictic populations, which makes comparisons across situations pointless.
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Only when a challenger comes close to thepreponderantpower's capabilities does it initiate war.
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The first distinguishes one value and sets it as thepreponderantvalue.
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Thepreponderantintonation contour across all types of utterances and all data points is a falling or rise-falling one.
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A prime reason for this is thepreponderanttedious style of the bureaucratic report in which paragraphing seems to be more important than building up a consistent and cogent argument.
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The class forces fundamentally involved in a scientific controversy are research teams, even if it is their respective heads (bearers of the relation of ownership) who play thepreponderantrole.
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My suspicion is motivated by the fact thatpreponderantuse of one language in a given situation is accounted for either by referring to language dominance.
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Single adult males werepreponderantamong the migrant workers.
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