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.
