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Prevalent

Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.

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Frequent 84% connected

Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Frequent 84% connected

Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.

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Dominate 74% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dominate 74% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Predomination 74% connected

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

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Predomination 74% connected

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

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Dominant 92% connected

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Predominant 92% connected

Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prevailing 92% connected

of Prevail

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Rife 92% connected

Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a perio…

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Assurance noun · 78% connection

freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that fa…

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Authority noun · 78% connection

freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that fa…

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Average adjective · 78% connection

relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even numbe…

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Beggarly adjective · 78% connection

(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

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Centile noun · 78% connection

(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…

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Confidence noun · 78% connection

freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that fa…

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Declination noun · 78% connection

a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

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Decline noun · 78% connection

a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

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Decrease verb · 78% connection

decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell drama…

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Diminish verb · 78% connection

decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell drama…

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Distribution noun · 78% connection

the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

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Effect noun · 78% connection

an outward appearance; "he made a good impression"; "I wanted to create an impression of success"; "she retained that bold effect in h…

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Frequency noun · 78% connection

the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations

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Growth noun · 78% connection

a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"

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Incidence noun · 78% connection

the relative frequency of occurrence of something

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Increase noun · 78% connection

a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a perio…

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Magnitude noun · 78% connection

the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the m…

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Advantage noun · 78% connection

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

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Avail verb · 78% connection

To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the pl…

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Better noun · 78% connection

Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.

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Coercion noun · 78% connection

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gaining, advantage, superiority, superior, force.
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Conquest noun · 78% connection

The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

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Cumulative adjective · 78% connection

Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the stat…

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Efficacy noun · 78% connection

Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in…

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Feud noun · 78% connection

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…

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Forehand noun · 78% connection

Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.

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Fraud noun · 78% connection

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of an…

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High superl. · 78% connection

Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, et…

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