Dominant
Dominant adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: the dominant authority on the English language
Minor
Minor adjective - Lacking importance.
Usage example: only a minor detail, which we can easily disregard for the moment
Both words in one sentence
- Hazard Rating: XX- Much of populace in major polities friendly to aliens, however there are comparatively minor polities where non-dominant species slavery is legal.
- As such the Book of Omni, only a few pages long, is actually minor contributions from a half dozen writers and Alma, the namesake of the longest book, is absent through the last third.There are several dominant and recurring themes in the book.
Source: Literature / The Book of Mormon - Non-mammalian cynodonts survived until the Early Jurassic (the tritylodont Oligokyphus) and perhaps even in the Early Cretaceous (the enigmatic Xenocretosuchus), but they made a minor part of the synapsid fauna after Triassic: their true mammalian descendants were dominant at this point.
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