Prevailing can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| prevailing - most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" | ||
Verb |
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| prevail - continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" | ||
| prevail - prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight" | ||
| prevail - use persuasion successfully; "He prevailed upon her to visit his parents" | ||
| prevail - be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds" | ||
| prevail - be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" |
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| 1. | adj. | Prevailing winds. | |
| 2. | adj. | It might be discreet of you to bend a little to the prevailing wind. | |
| 3. | adj. | On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon. | |
| 4. | adj. | As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease. | |
| 5. | adj. | During the Age of Sail, the strong prevailing winds of the Roaring Forties propelled ships across the Pacific, often at breakneck speed. | |
| 6. | adj. | Known to sailors around the world as the doldrums, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a belt around the Earth extending approximately five degrees north and south of the equator. Here, the prevailing trade winds of the northern hemisphere blow to the southwest and collide with the southern hemisphere’s driving northeast trade winds. | |
| 7. | adj. | The prevailing view among biologists is that non-native species should be presumed to be destructive unless proven otherwise. | |
| 8. | verb | Bad cold is prevailing throughout the country. | |
| 9. | verb | Westerly winds are prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east. | |
| 10. | verb | Early commerce to the Americas relied on the trade winds—the prevailing easterly winds that circle the Earth near the equator. | |
| 11. | verb | A new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has found that a new strain of the novel coronavirus that is prevailing worldwide is spreading faster than earlier versions. | |
| 12. | verb | Prevailing wisdom suggests that people exposed to people who are sick with the virus should be tested for illness themselves. | |
| 13. | verb | I have no doubt that the civilized world will prevail. | |
| 14. | verb | We must prevail against our rivals by all means. | |
| 15. | verb | The anthropologist says old customs still prevail in the province. | |
| 16. | verb | Justice will prevail in the end. | |
| 17. | verb | These customs used to prevail all over Japan. | |
| 18. | verb | I prevail on her to have a date with me. | |
| 19. | verb | The Christian religion is from heaven. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and its professors are not afraid of its being examined. It has stood for eighteen hundred years, and it will stand long. | |
| 20. | verb | Our country will prevail, because ours is a big and brave army. | |
| 21. | verb | Never flee from injustice, intolerance, or insanity. Reason must prevail. | |
| 22. | verb | Justice will prevail. |
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| adj. | |
| Prevailing winds. |
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| It might be discreet of you to bend a little to the prevailing wind. | |
| On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon. | |
| As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease. | |
| During the Age of Sail, the strong prevailing winds of the Roaring Forties propelled ships across the Pacific, often at breakneck speed. | |
| Known to sailors around the world as the doldrums, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a belt around the Earth extending approximately five degrees north and south of the equator. Here, the prevailing trade winds of the northern hemisphere blow to the southwest and collide with the southern hemisphere’s driving northeast trade winds. | |
| The prevailing view among biologists is that non-native species should be presumed to be destructive unless proven otherwise. | |
| verb | |
| Bad cold is prevailing throughout the country. | |
| Westerly winds are prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east. | |
| Early commerce to the Americas relied on the trade winds—the prevailing easterly winds that circle the Earth near the equator. | |
| A new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has found that a new strain of the novel coronavirus that is prevailing worldwide is spreading faster than earlier versions. | |
| Prevailing wisdom suggests that people exposed to people who are sick with the virus should be tested for illness themselves. | |
| I have no doubt that the civilized world will prevail. |
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| We must prevail against our rivals by all means. | |
| The anthropologist says old customs still prevail in the province. | |
| Justice will prevail in the end. | |
| These customs used to prevail all over Japan. | |
| I prevail on her to have a date with me. | |
| The Christian religion is from heaven. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and its professors are not afraid of its being examined. It has stood for eighteen hundred years, and it will stand long. | |
| Our country will prevail, because ours is a big and brave army. | |
| Never flee from injustice, intolerance, or insanity. Reason must prevail. | |
| Justice will prevail. | |