Prevailing has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Bad cold is prevailing throughout the country. | |
| 2. | It might be discreet of you to bend a little to the prevailing wind. | |
| 3. | On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon. | |
| 4. | 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. | During the Age of Sail, the strong prevailing winds of the Roaring Forties propelled ships across the Pacific, often at breakneck speed. | |
| 6. | Westerly winds are prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east. | |
| 7. | Early commerce to the Americas relied on the trade winds—the prevailing easterly winds that circle the Earth near the equator. | |
| 8. | 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. | |
| 9. | The prevailing view among biologists is that non-native species should be presumed to be destructive unless proven otherwise. | |
| 10. | 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. |