Example Sentences

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On Friday morning, voters — predominately Democrats like Layne — trickled into the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana to turn in their ballots.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The stories are set predominately in a middle America of big skies and lonely highways—terrain Thompson calls “the concrete pasture.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Also, while most BDCs target middle-market lending, the Apollo Debt Solutions BDC predominately focuses on larger deals, according to the asset manager’s website.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 21, 2026

Italy's fashion suppliers are predominately small- and medium-sized companies, tens of thousands of whom have shuttered in recent years, according to industry associations, amid a luxury downturn and higher production costs.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

We lived in a predominately white neighborhood in Warner Robins.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry