The Clue
Unquestioned #1 status (9 letter answer)
The Answer
DOMINANCE
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Notes
The answer DOMINANCE is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Related Clues
Control
Definition
DOMINANCE as a noun:
1. (laterality, dominance) = superior development of one side of the body
2. (dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control) = the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
3. the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
4. (authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so) = the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state"