Leading
Leading adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Prevailing and leading are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prevailing" instead an adjective "Leading".
Prevailing
Prevailing adjective - Accepted, used, or practiced by most people.
Leading and prevailing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Leading" instead an adjective "Prevailing".
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Between the World Wars, both men became leading advocates of mechanization and German-style manoeuvre warfare (Bewegungskrieg), opposing the prevailing Entente Cordiale-style doctrine of firepower and artillery supremacy.
Source: Useful Notes / Charles De Gaulle -
Aside from that, there was one utterance of "she" as a pronoun, and Transmutate was given voice by the show's voice director and Transformers alum Susan Blu, leading to the prevailing contention the character was female.
Source: Ambiguous Gender
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