"a prevalent tendency" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, but it is most commonly used to describe a common or widespread tendency or behavior among a group of people. Example: "A prevalent tendency among young adults today is to prioritize experiences over material possessions."
Lauren Ross, who recently resigned as director and chief curator of White Columns, has organized an engaging show about a prevalent tendency in contemporary art: the reshuffling of familiar graphic conventions into pictures that are teasingly illusory yet indecipherably abstract.
They point out that a prevalent tendency of gender selection and an obvious marry-up model exist in China's ethnic intermarriages.
Moreover, antisense transcripts displayed a prevalent tendency to be positively correlated with the expression of their corresponding sense counterparts.
Initiated at east London's Transition Gallery, Fade Away cuts a swathe through an increasingly prevalent tendency among painters to engage with intriguing ambiguities.
This viewpoint has been widely adopted in public policy-related issues, and seems to reflect the prevalent tendency in an industrialized society to stipulate physical capabilities as occupational requirements (Hahn 1993).
We hypothesize that effective projects should support surgeons performing cancer operations, and avoid the prevalent tendency to focus on identifying 'bad apples' or surgeons not meeting a pre-set bar of performance.
Then as now, the prevalent tendency in math education was to offer students "relevant" mathematics; as if the same mathematics is relevant to all students.
The access-for-depiction dynamic is at least as prevalent a tendency in journalism as the seduction-and-betrayal routine.
156 Chronic AD is a prevalent disease that presents with a wide range of severity and a tendency for periodic disease flares.
"It's a prevalent problem.
His is a prevalent view these days.
