Crossword-Solution: PREVAILING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prevailing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Prevail |
| Prevailing | a. | Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. |
| Prevailing | a. | Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion. |
We have 52 clues for the answer “PREVAILING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Most general. | 1 answer |
| Like some winds and opinions | 1 answer |
| predominating | 6 answers |
| High and low? | 12 answers |
| in the habit of | 14 answers |
| presumable | 14 answers |
| prepared for | 15 answers |
| pervasive | 15 answers |
| pandemic | 15 answers |
| Rife | 16 answers |
| epidemic | 28 answers |
| Pertinent | 28 answers |
| Probably ... | 33 answers |
| Prone | 34 answers |
| predominant | 36 answers |
| presumed | 38 answers |
| contacting | 45 answers |
| Across the board | 45 answers |
| in contact | 47 answers |
| Ruling | 47 answers |
| Sweeping | 48 answers |
| CIRCULATING ___ | 48 answers |
| progressing | 51 answers |
| Upon | 52 answers |
| Toward. | 52 answers |
| Remaining | 52 answers |
| bordering | 53 answers |
| Next (to) | 53 answers |
| AT ___ | 54 answers |
| outward | 54 answers |
| contiguous | 54 answers |
| Onward | 58 answers |
| BEYOND ___ | 61 answers |
| Ahead | 62 answers |
| along | 62 answers |
| Wearing | 63 answers |
| Beside | 64 answers |
| Dominant | 64 answers |
| Higher | 65 answers |
| roofing | 65 answers |
| Overhead | 65 answers |
| accustomed | 66 answers |
| Across | 66 answers |
| ALMIGHTY ___ | 68 answers |
| aloft | 68 answers |
| Universal | 69 answers |
| BY ___ | 71 answers |
| Widespread | 74 answers |
| Being | 75 answers |
| On | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREVAILING (5)
The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements, in the prevailing form of society.
When legislation was finally published in the Government Gazette in 1972, owing to the prevailing political situation (military dictatorship) it had serious limitations imposed by some Ministries which had to look after their own interests, especially the Ministry of National Defence.
The prevailing idea was that the white race, especially the Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic branches of it, had been especially blessed by God so that it could achieve industrialization and democratization.
The greater strength of the ape was slowly prevailing, and the teeth of the straining beast were scarce an inch from Tarzan’s throat when, with a shuddering tremor, the great body stiffened for an instant and then sank limply to the ground.
Before daylight broke the ebb-tide would have carried the Kincaid well into the Benguela current which flows northward along the coast of Africa, and, as a south wind was prevailing, Jane hoped to be out of sight of the mouth of the Ugambi before Rokoff could become aware of the departure of the steamer.
Quotes with PREVAILING (3)
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. Animportant attribute in successful people is their impatience with negativethinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates willchange. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want youto stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you tocrawl. Your friends will stretch your…
In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war. Whichever wins, future will believe it as the prevailing truth.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1968–2016).