Object

• orthodoxy: We need to break the prevailing orthodoxy that the only future for those who don't own their own homes is social housing.

• wind: Place out of prevailing winds in a warm spot.

• westerly: Then they would follow the American coast northwards and return to Europe on the more northern prevailing westerlies to complete the trip.

• mood: Pattern motifs can have a symbolic meaning or catch the prevailing mood of a particular period in time.

• norm: Architecture there is about ' accommodation ' , not ' transgression ' of prevailing norms.

• attitude: Debate inevitably moved to issues such as low income and inequality, or prevailing attitudes to disabilities.

Preposition: at

• time: The military worth of the target would need to be considered in relation to the circumstances prevailing at the time.

Preposition: throughout

• hardship: The ancient Celts used the symbols of the Claddagh to show that marriage is a partnership where love prevails throughout any hardship.

Modifying Another Word

• ultimately: This was the point of view that ultimately prevailed.

• everywhere: Stuff like this doesn't help the " me too " victim mentality that prevails pretty much everywhere at the moment.

• eventually: Despite losing the second game, Gaultier eventually prevailed in 43 minutes.

• generally: This configuration generally prevailed from the earliest origins of the wagon bodystyle in the 1920s through the 1940s.

• still: Curious wedding customs still prevail in Wales, especially in the western counties.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• upon: Even the Mayor of Durham, splendid in his chain of office, was prevailed upon to join the dance.

• over: You prevail over in a row help reset your excitement of both.

Used with why or when

• when: Strictly it is about how to survive and reproduce, in the conditions that prevailed when previous generations were alive.

• where: We have to try to prevail where we can.

• which: In the arrangement of leaves upon the stem, a law of proportion prevails which is of a very striking character.

Preposition: in

• quarter: Thus in the ninth century a healthy activity prevailed in many quarters, directed toward the securing of a sound text of the Bible.