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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1. Sucharita Kodali:

   All kinds of established beauty companies have made forays into various technology investments, for now, they are experiments. That's just all they are. Nothing is a prevailing means of buying or selling.

2. Campos Neto:

   Obviously, a breakthrough on reforms makes the inflation scenario in the future more benign, the prevailing factor (in the risks to inflation) is reforms. Progress on reform is improvement in this sense.

3. Jeffrey Olson:

   I’m not talking about car or truck traffic but pollutants that are transported by prevailing winds, for example, pollutants from a coal-fired electrical generating station are carried by prevailing winds long distances away from the plant and have an effect on air quality in a national park or other area downwind from that plant.

4. 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.

5. The Union:

   We will continue to consult with government and the event will be delivered in compliance with the prevailing Covid measures in place at the time.