(The prevailing term for this is "lurker," an old online message board term, slightly pejorative, describing someone who reads the board but doesn't post).
Keys was found by the Opies to be the prevailing term in western Scotland and in a strip running through north-west England in an otherwise predominantly barley area.
Barley was recorded by the Opies as the prevailing term in east Scotland and the Borders, the Lake District, north-west England, west Midlands and in Wales, apart from the south east of Wales where cree prevailed.
The prevailing term today to describe the transitional phase between normal aging and dementia is MCI.
In the category "Molecular Function", "binding" and "catalytic activity" were the prevailing terms.
This suggestion seems to me to be in agreement, if not with a prevailing usage of the term 'logical notion', at least with one usage which actually is encountered in practice" (Tarski 1986a, p. 145).
Weathering studies have often sought to explain features in terms of a prevailing set of environmental conditions.
Although some centres of excellence were recognised (especially in the fields of space research, materials and nuclear research), only Russia and Ukraine were, from the very beginning, considered as level-playing field partners, with whom international S&T cooperation has had a prevailing intrinsic research value in terms of achieving excellence through R&D cooperation.
Meghan Azad, a researcher at the University of Manitoba, and others reviewed dozens of studies about the long-term health effects of sugar substitutes, trying to see whether there was a prevailing trend.
Subsection (d)(1)(A) directs that courts "shall award to a prevailing party... fees and other expenses... incurred by that party". (Emphasis added). We have long held that the term "prevailing party" in fee statutes is a "term of art" that refers to the prevailing litigant.
A speculative possibility is that initial retrieval of evidence from long-term memory results in a schema match/activation, and it is this congruency between retrieval outcome and a prevailing schema representation that is valued.
