All 9 Uses of
dominate
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- She had judges rate the slices of garble for such qualities as warmth, hostility, dominance, and anxiousness, and she found that by using only those ratings, she could predict which surgeons got sued and which ones didn't.†
Chpt 1dominance = most powerful, influential, or conspicuous
- In fact, it was even more basic than that: if the surgeon's voice was judged to sound dominant, the surgeon tended to be in the sued group.†
Chpt 1dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- If the voice sounded less dominant and more concerned, the surgeon tended to be in the non-sued group.†
Chpt 1
- But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corrosive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a dominant tone.†
Chpt 1
- "You don't choose to make positive associations with the dominant group," says Mahzarin Banaji, who teaches psychology at Harvard University and is one of the leaders in IAT research.†
Chpt 3
- Once, Coke had been far and away the dominant soft drink in the world.
Chpt 5 *dominant = most influential (most popular)
- Their client, Christian Brothers, wanted to know why, after years of being the dominant brand in the category, it was losing market share to E & J. Their brandy wasn't more expensive.†
Chpt 5dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world.†
Chpt 5dominance = most powerful, influential, or conspicuous
- The only reason it made it to the air at all was that the president of the company, Robert Wood, and the head of programming, Fred Silverman, happened to like it, and the network was so dominant at that point that it felt that it could afford to take a risk on the show.†
Chpt 5dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
Definitions:
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(1)
(dominate) to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, domination can refer to a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.