plurality

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"A youth movement will be more effective when internal divisions are minimal, there is ideological plurality without antagonism, and there are few established parties that can easily hijack the movement's results."

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

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

Even Sangamon County, where Mr. Lincoln had lived all his mature years, gave a plurality of its votes to General George B. McClellan.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt