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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

U. S. holdings total $185,033,300, so that although the "Y" covers 52 countries its chief activities are still preponderantly here.

From Time Magazine Archive

The State Senate, preponderantly conservative, was still mulling over the Olson relief program.

From Time Magazine Archive

He now could see the Federal line of battle, drawn on both sides of the pike, but preponderantly to the westward.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary