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Pascal's triangle can appear as a member of classes of triangular arrays where presumably no class member should be ranked in importance over any other. Two such cases which came to mind were the multinomial triangles and the Hoggatt triangles. No doubt there are others. We selected the multinomial triangles. Was Pascal's triangle only a binomial triangle in a sea of trinomial, quadrinomial, pentanomial, etc., or might it exhibit a significant influence on the makeup of the other multinomial triangles? We admit a certain prejudice in our choice. Computer experimentation with partition counting, large multinomial expansions, and generating functions using computer algebra systems (muMath, Device, Mathematica) hinted at a definite Pascal influence. A few years ago, such experimentation would have been virtually impossible. In this note, we take advantage of features of multinomial triangles to search for influence of Pascal rows and diagonals on their counterparts in the other multinomial triangles. After having seen our results, we leave it to the reader to answer the title question. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0735.65001].