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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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All that he had originally designed to spend on Malta, he would give as an aid to the queen, so that she might prevail over her rebels.
There is never any guarantee that such a situation will always prevail in the future.
We must not believe that all opinion is ideology, that reason is only power, that there is no truth to prevail.
As long as calm heads prevail, it can be reasonably hoped that tangible progress will be made in the future.
Every aspect of what is supposed to prevail in serious fiction comes into play.
He thought that if this system crumbled then anarchy and tyranny would prevail.

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