prevailing mood

collocation in English

meaningsofprevailingandmood

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prevailing
adjective
uk
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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mood
noun[C]
uk
/muːd/us
/muːd/
the way you feel at a ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandmoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprevailing mood

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Externally, however, the aspect takes on a nature of the impervious and the building returns to its region'sprevailingmood.
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Some notes of discord have recently disturbed theprevailingmoodof goodwill.
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Furthermore, how does one explain that, only a few years later, theprevailingmoodof apathy was suddenly replaced by attempts to revive the movement and reestablish groups?
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It requires amendment, and soon, if theprevailingmoodof cynicism about it is not to grow to an extent which will inevitably destroy it.
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It was in thisprevailingmoodof agnosticism that those of my contemporaries at school between the two wars grew up.
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We also need to watch theprevailingmoodin the decline in aid flows at a time of increasing need.
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It was inevitable that the planners of those days should have been influenced by the thenprevailingmoodand outlook.
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It depends upon theprevailingmood, and the thought that the dice may be loaded against them.
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Maybe it is even theprevailingmoodof the country at large.
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Do not let theprevailingmoodbe exploited for the purpose of closing borders or increasing prejudices between people.
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We do not believe that we should accept such radical changes just because of theprevailingmoodof the country.
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I do not believe that that is theprevailingmoodin this country.
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That has, indeed, been theprevailingmood.
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In short, he locked himself in an embittered battle against theprevailingmoodof his age.
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The audience repeatedly rose to its feet during the program, setting the festival'sprevailingmoodof music over politics.
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Ritter was never implicated, but theprevailingmoodin the city was anti-incumbent.
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Theprevailingmoodwas one of barely concealed paranoia.
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In theprevailingmoodof the times however, the movement was painted as leftist and pro-communist, and quickly crumbled.
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A more enlightened chancellor would have realised he was involved in a battle with theprevailingmoodof his age.
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These portraits are not full of expression; theprevailingmoodis rather thoughtful and quiet.
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