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The phrase "a prevailing position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a dominant or widely accepted viewpoint or stance on a particular issue.
Example: "In the debate over climate change, a prevailing position among scientists is that immediate action is necessary to mitigate its effects."
Alternatives: "a dominant stance" or "a leading viewpoint".
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A prevailing position of potential instability is when a structure, especially a column, a reservoir, or an aerospace structure such as a projectile, undergoes an axial follower force.
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The basis of this speculation was that both CTX-II and bone resorption are affected by oestrogen [ 16, 26, 32] and by a series of bone resorption inhibitors [ 18, 39] and that the prevailing position in cartilage tissue of CTX-II is at the bone-cartilage interface [ 21].
In the old days, IBM may have opted to leverage Watson's unique potential on its own and used it to reinforce the company's prevailing position in software and technology.
The Department of Education's consideration to use federal money to pay for firearms or training — as first reported by the New York Times Wednesday — would certainly deviate from the government's prevailing position.
In describing, and clearly endorsing, the prevailing position of intersectional feminists, Bina Shah states that, to such enlightened thinkers, those of us in the West have (emphasis mine) "willfully misrepresented the plight of Afghan women".
Inductivism was a prevailing view about justification in empirical science.
I think there's a prevailing attitude at the State Department.
Those deeper sources are intertwined with the impact of a prevailing, singular and narrow view of "success" that emphasizes money, power and position.
She lacked a doctrine, a prevailing call.
Politics remains a prevailing aspect of Albany.
Their enthusiasm reflects a prevailing mood.
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