To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
The word "dominate" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when referring to having control or dominance over a particular situation, thing, or person. Example sentence: She dominated the game and won by a landslide.
Had the bosses realized that they were in the transportation business, rather than the railroad business, they could have moved into trucking and air transport, rather than letting other companies dominate.
Is it OK for an imported culture to dominate indigenous culture?
Targaryen manages to repeatedly outmanoeuvre and outwit scheming men who dominate the world of Game of Thrones and dismiss the idea that a woman might have the wherewithal to establish an empire.
BillyMills again: It's interesting that the Spanish chapter, which is not at all about flying, is the climax of the book; his experience of war seems to have moved his position a bit away from the solitary and towards the communal, and that is evidenced by the sheer number of other people who inhabit, indeed dominate, that chapter.
"We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment: that if the United States extends a defence umbrella over the region, if we do even more to develop the military capacity of those [allies] in the Gulf, it is unlikely that Iran will be any stronger or safer because they won't be able to intimidate and dominate as they apparently believe they can once they have a nuclear weapon".
It was not Amazon's first foray into music – it sells MP3 downloads – but it was a major move in the battle to dominate the next generation of music listening technology.
The SNP could win more than 90% of Scotland's seats with 45% of the vote, exploiting the same "winner takes all" electoral system that enabled Labour to dominate Scotland for decades.
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