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Not really frazzled ... just amazed (though I don't know why it's so prevailent) at the duplicity here.
McCain Ad Blasts Obama For Ties To Former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson 2009
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But, yeah, I can see real utility in a prize for treatments for diseases prevailent in the poorer countries, like malaria.
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It appears that such suggestions are prevailent in the UK and the US.
Memo:Fire Breathing Dragons-Bad for Kids Zillabob 2007
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It appears that such suggestions are prevailent in the UK and the US.
Archive 2007-11-01 Zillabob 2007
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It is also one of the main reasons today that the replay, over and over, by the hour is so prevailent.
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It is also one of the main reasons today that the replay, over and over, by the hour is so prevailent.
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Certainly, it has helped me appreciate the value of money, and has a part to play in imbuing the lust for money which is so prevailent in me nowadays.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2004
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Something prevailent there is the hardship that the people there face.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2003
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But, considering that goodness is no such rare thing among men -- the world familiarly know the noun; a common one in every language -- it was curious that what so signalized the stranger, and made him look like a kind of foreigner, among the crowd (as to some it make him appear more or less unreal in this portraiture), was but the expression of so prevailent a quality.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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Demonstration, which is ever more powerful and prevailent than Precept, or even Preaching it self.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664
biocon commented on the word prevailent
Prevailent means 1. widespread, pervasive, prevalent prevailant; 2. powerful, influential (OED).
October 9, 2013