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What does prevail mean?

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  1. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
  2. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
  3. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.
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There is never any guarantee that such a situation will always prevail in the future.
If human beings are capable of deciding the truth value of every well-formed mathematical statement, then classical logic will prevail after all.
We are filled with sorrow, but yet, we are determined not to let this terror prevail.
He thought that if this system crumbled then anarchy and tyranny would prevail.
We must not believe that all opinion is ideology, that reason is only power, that there is no truth to prevail.
We must recommit ourselves to building a world where democracy and rights prevail.

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