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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dominating issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a primary or most significant problem or topic in a discussion or context.
Example: "The dominating issue in the debate was the impact of climate change on future generations."
Alternatives: "primary concern" or "overriding issue."
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The clear, dominating issue of recent months has surrounded golf's return to the Olympic Games.
The Fashoda conflict, an unsuccessful confrontation with Great Britain in the Sudan (1898), helped to undermine Faure's popularity, but the real dominating issue during his presidency was the Dreyfus Affair.
But it will not be a dominating issue in the run-up to polling day.
Security is likely to become the dominating issue in the 2017 presidential elections.
Taking action on climate change has become a dominating issue — globally, nationally, locally, and even here at MIT.
The former Labour cabinet minister Lord Adonis said: "Brexit is the dominating issue for Labour's social democrats.
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It broke through the culture wars that in Washington have all too often dominated issues around women's health - and reproductive health, in particular - and relied on the facts.
Second, VICAN was designed to encourage social sciences research on 'cancer survivorship' in the French context, as psychosocial issues dominate medical issues in this specific phase of the cancer trajectory.
Rarely has one House member so dominated an issue.
"Clearly the president and the Republicans dominated that issue".
"Clearly the president and the Republicans have dominated that issue, in part because he's the president now.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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