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verb as in dominate, control
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Trump prevailed despite a significant gender gap between female and male voters, with Trump’s opponents expressing deep distress over his victory while his supporters publicly gloated about those same people's pain.
They include John Healey, the British defence secretary, who said he expected the US "to remain alongside allies like the UK, standing with Ukraine for as long as it takes to prevail over Putin's invasion".
In seven of the 10 states where abortion rights measures were on the ballot, they prevailed.
“But ultimately the federal law and federal Constitution prevail, because that's how it works.”
Germany's president has called for "reason and responsibility" to prevail, but this was a coalition collapse that was months in the making.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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