The phrase "a prevailing one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is dominant or widely accepted in a particular context or situation.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, the prevailing one is that immediate action is necessary to mitigate its effects."
Alternatives: "a dominant one" or "a common one".
Aunt Ester is the prevailing one here, a neighborhood lady who dies near the play's beginning at the age of 366.
Christensen looks at the typical pattern in industry: new technology mostly started at a lower quality than the prevailing one, but the slope of improvement, and the acceptance in the marketplace of "good enough" soon outpaced the previous technology.
One big problem for Mr. Bush just now is that his master storyteller, Mr. Rove, is at the center of the prevailing one in an unsettling way.
The thesis that constitutionalism reflects an equilibrium among the powerful differs from the prevailing one, which asserts that it reflects gains to the weak from constraining the powerful.
Occasionally, people would tell Jane that they noticed a refreshing contrast between her approach and the company's prevailing one.
Indeed, if not for a bystander with a cellphone, the police officers' version of events would have been the prevailing one: that Mr. Garner "resisted arrest" and had to be subdued.
calfăcĭo (as calidus = caldus, calidarius = caldarius, etc)., fēci, factum, 3, v. a. (in the time of Quint. the contracted form seems to have been the prevailing one, v. Quint. 1, 6, 21; also Charis. p. 220 P. gives as pass. calfio.
This mythic version of Carter soon became the prevailing one.
But in China, the newer technology is more expensive to make than the prevailing one.
mother-in-law was the prevailing one through all periods of the language: uno animo omnes socrus oderunt nurus, Ter.
