plurality

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Contrast that with the tone of Friedrich Merz, the center-right Chancellor who won a plurality in that election despite Mr. Vance’s intrusions and is Germany’s most pro-U.S. leader in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

A plurality of the faithful are immigrants and the overwhelming majority are Latino.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

That the city where nearly every language and religion on earth already exists in public would somehow collapse under the weight of its own plurality?

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

"The naan tells a story of plurality; of cross-cultural identities co-existing in harmony," he says.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

But others thought that the plurality of worlds followed immediately from the ideas of Copernicus and Kepler and found themselves aghast.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan