All 8 Uses

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Flags of Our Fathers
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John Bradley: Appleton, Wisconsin My father's earliest childhood images were dominated by exposed human hearts: the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Sacred Heart of Mary.†
Chpt 2.
A drive along two-lane Route 83 in the 1930's of Harlon's youth would reveal a flat, lush land dominated by small farms, large cultivated fields, and the occasional town of 1,000 to 2,000 people.†
Chpt 2.
The Navy now held sway in the ocean, the Army Air Force was beginning to dominate the skies.†
Chpt 5.
Gone was the ritualized domination of boot camp.†
Chpt 5. *
Or if not changed, brought to the surface, grown darkly dominant.†
Chpt 5.
The dominant feature was Mount Suribachi, festooned with an artist's rendering of a Japanese flag sitting atop it.†
Chpt 12.
There, in a large conference room scattered with note-taking staff people and dominated by a blown-up reproduction of the Rosenthal photograph, the Marine brass pressed the new hero for the identities of the flagraisers.†
Chpt 15.
In the final weeks, laundry came to dominate the concerns of local rally chairmen: The boys had decided that until their fresh clothes had been delivered, they would give no interviews to the press.†
Chpt 16.

Definitions:

(1) (dominate)
to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, domination can refer to a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.