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• s  most frequent or common
• s  having superior power and influence
  the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism

• Corpratization has become the predominant cultural force in America and much of the rest of the world.
• Before the smoke and soot from the burning coal and wood of the Industrial Revolution began to blacken the bark of England's trees, the predominant variety of peppered moth had .
• The predominant group for MySpace, on the other hand, is "struggling societies," or households that are primarily single parent, single income, raising families on lower incomes .

• prevailing
• prevalent
• dominant
• rife
• overriding
• paramount
• predominate
• preponderant
• preponderating

News & Articles

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• Airmic and Willis Terrorism Review Explores the Scope and Cover Offered by Insurance Schemes Around the World
  LONDON -- Several of the world's long-established terrorism insurance schemes were set up to deal with a different terrorism threat than is predominant today, according to a new technical guide produced ...
  June 12, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Programs get a read on summer
  Travel is the predominant theme in most local reading programs this year
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Chronicle
• Programs get a read on summer
  Travel is the predominant theme in most local reading programs this year
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Chronicle

Quotes

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• Robert Zoellick in guardian.co.uk
  The United States would be mistaken to take for granted the dollar's place as the world's predominant reserve currency. Looking forward, there will increasingly be other options to the dollar,Zoellick told an audience at Johns Hopkins...
• Ben Bernanke in Forbes
  The Fed "has consistently stated that upside risks to inflation are its predominant" concern, Bernanke said.
• Charles Gibson in FOXNews
  I've never seen an issue so predominant in this way,said ABC anchor Charles Gibson.