Example Sentences

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In one poll after another in recent weeks, respondents have overwhelmingly voiced concerns about AI, a challenge to claims by industry executives that their technology would gain popularity by improving people’s lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“The dangers are so much different. Instead of an explosion, it just turns off. There’s no radioactive waste. So this light touch is exactly what the Congress overwhelmingly … wanted the NRC to do.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has long puzzled scientists: Why are humans so overwhelmingly right-handed?

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

The government’s stakes in other companies are relatively small potatoes and overwhelmingly concentrated in critical minerals companies.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

It was nice to have women who looked like me in close proximity on a campus that was overwhelmingly white.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad