prevailing theory

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prevailing
adjective
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/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
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/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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Unfortunatelyprevailingtheoryis vague, outmoded and diffuse.
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This was not predicted by anyprevailingtheoryof breast cancer biology.
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Prevailingtheoryholds that the signal from each type of cone can contribute to two perceptual hue components.
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This model provided an alternative to blending inheritance, which was theprevailingtheoryat the time.
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Populationistik was theprevailingtheoryof colonization, which measured prosperity in terms of labor.
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Theprevailingtheoryamong historians is that a life-size dummy fell in his place.
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Theprevailingtheoryof the town's name is that it reflects the quality of the area soil.
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Theprevailingtheoryis that as the glaciers retreated people moved northward as the flora and fauna also moved northward.
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Theprevailingtheoryis that the symbols were used for religious purposes in a traditional agricultural society.
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Theprevailingtheoryis that they are formed during the collapse of a nebula into a thin disk of gas and dust.
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The 19th centuryprevailingtheoryof sleep and waking stated that brain organization and behavior was based on a sensory-motor schema.
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Antagonistic pleiotropy is aprevailingtheorytoday, but this is largely by default, and not because the theory has been well verified.
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Theprevailingtheoryat the time, however, was that the isotopes were due to the existence of differing numbers of nuclear electrons in different atoms of an element.
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Theprevailingtheorybehind this difference lies in the shapes of the orbitals of the electrons, which vary according to the energy state of the electron.
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They named their element sequanium, but the claim was discounted because theprevailingtheoryat the time was that if it existed at all, element 93 would not exist naturally.
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