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Meaning: (idiomatic)To be the mostimportantor mostprevalent.1961July, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, inTrains Illustrated, page401:During the month prior to writing this article I have made a series of journeys [...]. One was over a main line on which steam stillreigns supremeon the principal trains and on which we had a fine run, fully up to the best standards of the locomotive class concerned.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,→DOI, page 8:[A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language stillreigns supreme.
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