prevailing

prevailing (Current), adjective abundant, accepted, accustomary, accustomed, all-embracing, bourgeois, catholic, characteristic, colloquial, common, commonplace, comprehensive, conformable, contemporary, conventional, current, customary, diffuse, dominant, epidemic, everyday, extensive, familiar, frequent, general, generally accepted, global, habitual, in vogue, latest, normal, pandemic, popular, predominant, prevalent, rampant, regular, rife, stock, sweeping, typical, universal, up-to-date, usual, vernacular, well-known, widely accepted, widespread, wonted, workaday, worldwide
Associated concepts: prevailing conditions, prevailing rate, prevailing rate of interest

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prevailing (Having superior force), adjective authoritative, chief, commanding, conquering, defeating, determining, directing, dominant, effective, effectual, efficacious, forceful, governing, heading, hegemonic, hegemonical, influential, leading, mighty, moving, operative, overcoming, overruling, persuasive, potent, powerful, predominant, preponderant, preponderating, puissant, ruling, strong, successful, supreme, triumphal, triumphant, unvanquished, victorious, weighty, winning
Associated concepts: prevailing party

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See also: accustomed, cardinal, coercion, common, compulsion, conventional, convincing, current, customary, dominant, familiar, force, forcible, general, influential, leading, master, ordinary, orthodox, outstanding, popular, potent, powerful, predominant, prevalent, prime, principal, regular, rife, successful, typical, usual