Sentence examples for dominant means from inspiring English sources

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"Dominated" denotes an intervention more costly and less effective than the comparator, while "dominant" means the intervention is more effective and less costly than the comparator.

Might the PC or television screen become the dominant means of displaying images?

It has since become a dominant means of understanding how wages are determined.

"We are all well aware that streaming is becoming the dominant means of listening to music, as ownership dwindles.

Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, said stiffer mileage requirements would make golf carts the dominant means of transportation.

Humans are also less typical than it might seem: we are the only mammalian bipeds that don't hop (at least as the dominant means of locomotion).

The Internet has been the dominant means of selling tickets for the past two years, according to a study by the producers' organization the Broadway League.

It took 50 years for the credit card to become the dominant means of payment, so it shouldn't be surprising that mobile payments haven't immediately taken off.

But it now appears that Wi-Fi hotspots -- wireless Internet access hubs -- may eventually provide blanket coverage in urban areas and become the dominant means of connection.

It is fine for a charity to engage in political activities, as long as these do not become the dominant means by which it carries out its purposes.

(Though those two words are often taken to be synonyms, dominant means "controlling"; predominant means "most influential at the moment". That was a nice distinction; prefixes count).

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