Sentence examples for the prevailing term from inspiring English sources

(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).

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.

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.

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.

It's almost £70 per month – mostly spent on clothes, techy gadgets and shoes, the survey warns – at a time when the prevailing outlook, in terms of money and standards of living, is gloomy at best.

Unfortunately, the existing WiFi infrastructure is unstructured which could lead to the prevailing issues in terms of mobility management.

If held longer than one year, most of the accumulated distributions are taxed at the prevailing federal long-term capital gains rate, which is currently 15%.

Simulation and experiments, carried with synthetic data and real image signals, show that the PSR scheme and the CS system, obtained using the proposed approaches, outperform the prevailing ones in terms of reducing the effect of sparse representation errors.

The prevailing vagueness of the term poses several problems.

Any loan that carried an interest rate more than 3 percentage points above the prevailing rate for long-term Treasury bonds was considered a subprime mortgage.