overwhelmingly

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Local 11’s SoFi Stadium workers overwhelmingly voted late last week to authorize a strike, which means a work stoppage could have started anytime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“It has been an overwhelmingly positive response,” she said.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026

A weekly survey suggests that active money managers are almost fully invested in U.S. stocks; while options-market activity showed investors are overwhelmingly positioned for gains, which means any disappointment can trigger profit-taking.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly approved a four-year TV and film deal with major studios including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander