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Malaria is prevalent in that region.
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the prevalence of illiteracy in Mississippi; (source)prevalence = commonness
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. (source)prevalent = commonly encountered
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In a paper analyzing the data, Chetty and his coauthors noted two important factors that explained the uneven geographic distribution of opportunity: the prevalence of single parents and income segregation.† (source)
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Well, it'll be prevalent in my increasingly hellish existence.† (source)
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I had never eaten there, but Owen said it was nice enough—on the harbor, a little over-quaint with the seafood theme (lobster pots and buoys and anchors and mooring ropes were prevalent in the decor).† (source)
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It is like water to fish, so prevalent that it goes unseen and unquestioned.† (source)
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—Philip Freneau, Pestilence: Written During the Prevalence of a Yellow Fever, 1793.† (source)
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We have seen, however, that it has not had thus far an extensive prevalency; that even in this country, where it made its first appearance, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the only two States by which it has been in any degree patronized; and that all the others have refused to give it the least countenance; wisely judging that confidence must be placed somewhere; that the necessity of doing it, is implied in the very act of delegating power; and that it is better to hazard the abuse of that confidence than to embarrass the government and endanger the public safety by impolitic restrictions on the legislative authority.† (source)
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It was her idea most definitely that we must go first to central Europe, where the vampire seemed most prevalent.† (source)
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HIV prevalence was inexplicably high among new arrivals to Sonagachi—27.7 percent among sex workers aged twenty or younger.† (source)
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The division of them between the two branches of the legislature, assigning to one the right of accusing, to the other the right of judging, avoids the inconvenience of making the same persons both accusers and judges; and guards against the danger of persecution, from the prevalency of a factious spirit in either of those branches.† (source)
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'It was the prevalent theory at the time,' interrupted the ambassador.† (source)
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He reveled in the attention and adored the engraved silver "loving cup" that was filled with wine and held to the lips of every man at the table—despite the prevalence in the city outside of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.† (source)
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There are, in my opinion, substantial reasons against such a provision: the most discerning cannot foresee how far the prevalency of a local spirit may be found to disqualify the local tribunals for the jurisdiction of national causes; whilst every man may discover, that courts constituted like those of some of the States would be improper channels of the judicial authority of the Union.† (source)
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Adam's squadron was focused on eradicating the IED and suicide bombing networks prevalent across the country, a mission of "dire importance," according to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.† (source)
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