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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prevail .
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The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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In England, where a different pronunciation of the Latin word prevailed, such confusion would be apt to occur; and hence, probably, English teachers substituted _and_ for _et_; from which, in course of time, the other corruptions mentioned by MR. LOWER were developed.
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I'm glad to see something I believed in prevailed, after the big blow I was dealt in Massachusetts.
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… The history of every political establishment in which this principle has prevailed, is a history of impotence, perplexity, and disorder.
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The differences are evident in the following domains of impact on reading development as these prevailed from the review of studies with bilingual English-Greek children.
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