Each person operates in all three modes at one time or another but usually has one dominant mode.

Researchers suggest that the dominant mode can be identified through an individual's speech pattern.

For most of human history, superstition was the dominant mode of explanation.

Any company that makes only minor improvements to excellent existing products might as well give up, according to the dominant mode of thinking.

Softly strummed guitars are the dominant mode, rueful midlife introspection the prevailing tone.