Synonyms for prevailing
prɪˈveɪ lɪŋpre·vail·ing

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1. prevailing

   Usual (Latin usus, use, habit, wont) signifies such as regularly or often recurs in the ordinary course of events, or is habitually repeated in the life of the same person. Ordinary (Latin ordo, order) signifies according to an established order, hence of everyday occurrence. In strictness, common and general apply to the greater number of individuals in a class; but both words are in good use as applying to the greater number of instances in a series, so that it is possible to speak of one person's common practise or general custom, tho ordinary or usual would in such case be preferable. Compare GENERAL; NORMAL.

   Synonyms:
   accustomed, common, customary, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, normal, ordinary, prevalent, public, regular, usual, wonted

   Antonyms:
   exceptional, extraordinary, infrequent, out-of-the-way, rare, singular, strange, uncommon, unparalleled, unusual

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1. prevailing

   Synonyms:
   controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common

   Antonyms:
   mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless

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1. prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rifeadjective

   most frequent or common

   "prevailing winds"

   Synonyms:
   overabundant, rife, predominate, dominant, predominant, plethoric, prevalent, preponderating, overriding, paramount, preponderant

   Antonyms:
   infrequent

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1. prevailingadjective

   Synonyms:
   effectual, dominant, predominant, efficacious, preponderating

2. prevailingadjective

   Synonyms:
   received (at the present time), current, established, ordinary, usual, PREVALENT, widely extended, most general

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1. List of paraphrases for "prevailing":

   dominant, predominant, prevalent, reigning, existing, current, mainstream, pervasive, widespread

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How to use prevailing in a sentence?

1. Massimo Improta:

   Common sense is prevailing in this beginning phase, we have not seen people without masks, we are not seeing gatherings.

2. Andrew Polk:

   This is a big-bang move, it's meant to address some real issues and also prevailing market sentiment over the past two days.

3. Matt McCrary:

   This runs somewhat contradictory to the prevailing narrative that higher load warm-up is better than lower load warm-up, the two theories here are that warm-up swings with a heavier weight bat significantly and sub-optimally alter swing mechanics and/or that a resisted movement longer in duration than a baseball bat swing is necessary to produce a warm-up effect.

4. Bill Vaughan:

   If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

5. Elie Honig:

   I think Donald Trump has a fairly good chance of prevailing.