prevailing

Definition:
1. Most frequent or common.
2. Encountered generally especially at the present time.

Use 'prevailing' in a sentence:

• 1. Recently, however, some scholars have argued that even though laissez-faire became the prevailing ethos in nineteen-century America, it was not accepted without struggle.
• 2. First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.
• 3. The fjords and islands of Chilean Patagonia take the brunt of the prevailing westerlies that wail across the southern seas.
• 4. The prevailing theory seems to be that we're all hot-tempered single mothers who can't keep a man.
• 5. Some 61% used contraceptives, just a few percentage points short of the 65-80% rate prevailing in Europe, North America and most of East Asia.
• 6. If a bond was issued when interest rates were lower, they might have a 4% coupon when the prevailing rate is 6%.
• 7. Now the prevailing wisdom is changing.
• 8. Thrift has become the prevailing practice.
• 9. He wore his hair in the prevailing fashion.
• 10. The prevailing exchange rate system is lopsided.
• 11. So that was a problem for the prevailing view.
• 12. It takes little experience on Pacific islands to be aware that there are prevailing winds.
• 13. Oriented to the prevailing wind, the front wall of perforated cardboard, moistened and cooled by a trickle of seawater pumped in, cools and moistens hot air blowing in.
• 14. She wears a fashionable hair style prevailing in the city.
• 15. Today the prevailing trend in underwear is for more closefitting styles.
• 16. God and humans lock in an eternal struggle, neither prevailing, yet both forever changed by their encounter with one another.
• 17. The Lapita's thrust into the Pacific was eastward, against the prevailing trade winds, Irwin notes.
• 18. In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiters atmosphere—namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water—that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiters structure.
• 19. In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiter's atmosphere– namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water–that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiter's structure.
• 20. In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiter's atmosphere—namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water—that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiter's structure.
• 21. The nature of plant life in deserts is also highly dependent on the fact that they have to adapt to the prevailing aridity.
• 22. This reflects attitudes and values prevailing in society.
• 23. The direction of the prevailing winds should be taken into account.
• 24. He broke from prevailing orthodoxies and asked the awkward questions.
• 25. We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons.
• 26. I hope this book is not yet another restatement of the prevailing wisdom.
• 27. Bailyn's third proposition suggests two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants: one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land.
• 28. The prevailing view seems to be that they will find her guilty.
• 29. In this regard, the prevailing star for Aquarius is Uranus.
• 30. The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind.
• 31. How people in a certain era bury their dead says much about the prevailing attitudes toward death.
• 32. This is surprising when you consider the prevailing emphasis by scholars and trainers and managers on the importance of cultivating close interpersonal relationships at work.