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How to pronounce dominance in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control
Type of condition, status
Has types absolutism, tyranny, ascendant, ascendent, despotism, domination, dominion, mastery, monopoly, predominance, predomination, prepotency, regulation, rule, supremacy
Derivation dominant, dominate


her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her.
Type Words
Synonyms laterality
Type of bodily property
Type Words
Synonyms authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so
Type of control
Has types sovereignty, lordship, muscle, power of appointment, carte blanche, command, imperium
Derivation dominate
Type Words
Type of organic phenomenon
Derivation dominant

Examples of dominance

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Serving notice of their dominance with 14 straight wins in January and February?
From the washingtonpost.com
To me, this article is just another article flexing Putin's dominance in Russia.
From the economist.com
It's suggests swings, shifts, dips and lurches in dominance and bragging rights.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Unions were never going to easily give up their dominance over the public purse.
From the online.wsj.com
In most cases elections are about one group battling for dominance with another.
From the guardian.co.uk
The dominance finally told for Tabard with eight minutes remaining on the clock.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
No-holds-barred fights for dominance are commonplace in the world of whitetails.
From the kentucky.com
For all his dominance Schumacher notes his victories have been relatively close.
From the usatoday.com
He brought Memphis back to prominence and then dominance in the blink of an eye.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Laterality: superior development of one side of the body
  • The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
  • The organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
  • Authority: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state"
  • (dominant) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
  • (dominant) exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"
  • In the C++ programming language, dominance implies a specific behaviour of symbol disambiguation in virtual inheritance. Consider the following example: class Parent { public: void function; };
  • Ecological dominance is the degree to which a species is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community, or makes up more of the biomass. Most ecological communities are defined by their dominant species.
  • Market dominance is a measure of the strength of a brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings. There is often a geographic element to the competitive landscape. ...