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
Last week, to hear Newton's full-dress "Report on Russia," a preponderantly female audience of 3,500 Georgians filed into Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Florida: Dade County's Catholic and Jewish vote should go preponderantly for Kennedy, oldsters for Nixon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole body, however, was preponderantly Norman, and William could therefore depend upon it to serve him as an army in the field in case of an English rising.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
