dominant trend
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdominantandtrend
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dominant
adjective
uk/ˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us/ˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk/trend/us/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofdominantandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdominant trend
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Thedominanttrendin the theory of well-being is towards subjective theories.
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Instead, itsdominanttrendwas arson, looting and secret stabbings.
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With regard to method, nearly all the chapters (in keeping with thedominanttrendin language and gender) draw on discourse analysis; only one involves quantitative data.
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Heuvel stresses he was a misfit, opposing thedominanttrendand then, when what he advocated acquired power, turning against it as it became corrupt.
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By objecting to adominanttrend(especially with its economic potential), one will never be a trend-setter.
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However, it makes an oversimplifying assumption of a common,dominanttrendindicator function, and differentiates technical traders by asking one key question: whether they trade following or against the trend.
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In banking markets, where thedominanttrendis towards concentrations and the exclusive pursuit of profit, the consequences of this are easy to see.
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This is the only report seeking to go against thedominanttrendfor the economic governance package as a whole.
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Throughout the world, thedominanttrendis towards fewer utilities and greater integration of generation and transmission, rather than towards fragmentation.
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Here, adominanttrendis the absence of the low-back vowel merger.
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This signaled a resurgence of socialist legality as thedominanttrend.
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Thedominanttrendhas been to regard only statistical averages.
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Towards the late 20th century, thedominanttrendwas to use it to group all typical sunbirds.
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But by the end of the 1930s thedominanttrend, at least in the southern grain-surplus areas, was to assign all collective-farm personnel, cultures and land plots to zvenya.
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Finally, the 1890s show new versions of these two dominant trends.
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In a bear market thedominanttrendis downward, so the pattern is reversedfive waves down and three up.
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It was also a place where both sides learned from each other and one of the dominant trends of colonial studies has been to emphasize the extent of indigenous agency.
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However, they also refer to dominant trends in current thinking, and therefore need to be taken seriously.
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