Synonym: predominant, prevalent, rife. Similar words: prevail, unavailing, ailing, wailing, failing, availability, prevalent, prevalence. Meaning: [prɪ'veɪlɪŋ] 
adj. 1. most frequent or common 2. encountered generally especially at the present time.
adj. 1. most frequent or common 2. encountered generally especially at the present time. 
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121. Yet the prevailing mood of public opinion remained distinctly hostile to the regime.
122. Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement.
123. Many state statutes provide for an award of attorney fees to the prevailing party.
124. The banks were asked to prevent lending rising above the level prevailing at the time.
125. Its programmed exposure system then sets the most suitable shutter speed and aperture under the prevailing circumstances.
126. In the prevailing hush of the room, it had an especially clumsy ring, an undertone of impermanence.
127. Is there much difference between this sort of arrangement and that prevailing at Lourdes today?
128. This is now the prevailing opinion among most specialists in the field.
129. You must be reasonably fit and be sure you can handle the prevailing wind,[www.Sentencedict.com] weather and tidal conditions.
130. The prevailing wisdom was that mortgages were not for Wall Street.
131. The precise interpretation of an ultimatum depends upon the circumstances prevailing at the time.
132. In actual fact 90 percent of penises range from three to five inches in length, but dimensions change with prevailing conditions.
133. The prevailing tone was homosexual - there was no doubt about that.
134. They must be related to the conditions prevailing over several preceding days.
135. It was an entire nation of pragmatists, each individual swaying with the prevailing wind to ensure his or her own future.
136. Thrift has become the prevailing practice.
137. The prevailing wind is from the southwest.
138. This really is the prevailing idea of Main Street.
139. Moreover, It'substantially reduced prevailing rates on many manufactured products.
140. I have been fighting the prevailing decadence for years.
141. Our guideline would be the prevailing world market prices.
142. LD process is now prevailing in world's steelmaking.
143. Extremozymes have unique biocatalytic function comparable to those prevailing enzymes in food processes.
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145. And as long as it remains tied to a dollar standard, it must follow the greenback down, buying as many dollars as its firms wish to sell to it at the prevailing rate.
146. A transaction in our fire company gave me some insight into their prevailing sentiments.
147. Located in West Virginia, the cool climate and prevailing winds greatly influenced the "flagged" shape of the red spruce trees found here.
148. The virtue of Scipio is in contrast with the Roman prevailing moral decline in Polybius's time.
149. Prevailing factory finish shall be one coat clear sealer selected by the woodwork manufacturer.
150. He even survived a prevailing desire to be removed from office!
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