majority

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Environment Minister Steve Luce said it was clear that the "majority of people were not in favour of the proposed phase-out" and the UK's phase-out would "cascade to the local market automatically".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Mitsotakis's conservative party leads in opinion polls, but is not expected to secure an absolute majority.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Curbside management will run the combined company, which Frontenac holds a majority stake in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"We were very pleasantly surprised that the majority of patients seemed to benefit from this diet," Sinha said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The fact that a clear majority of Americans were telling pollsters in the early 1980s—when the drug war was kicking off—that they opposed race discrimination in nearly all its forms should not be dismissed lightly.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander