preponderant
adjective
superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing.
preponderantly
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a word derived from
preponderant.
Example Sentences
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Statistics from Global Inequality, a 2016 book by the development economist Branko Milanović, indicate that in relative terms the greatest benefits of globalisation have accrued to a rising “emerging middle class”, based preponderantly in China.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2017
More relevant to the Brownsville lawsuit, however, is that American jurisprudence is preponderantly acquiescent to the duties of the chief executive.
From Newsweek
The State Senate, preponderantly conservative, was still mulling over the Olson relief program.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Journal's readers are preponderantly in favor of giving the widow's son and daughter each two years of college, letting them work for the rest of the way.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is preponderantly agricultural, with but one city of any size, and very few of her women are other than pure and intelligent.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
