plurality
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Bass is leading with women at 36%, while Pratt gets a plurality of men at 30%.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
President George W. Bush had won reelection with not just a plurality, but a majority of the popular vote.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
Supporting a plurality of religious beliefs, along with the freedom to hold none at all, was part of the brilliant enlightenment they wrote into the Constitution.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 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
The plurality of my customers are hardworking locals—truck drivers, construction workers, even housekeepers from the attached hotel—and I want them to have the closest to a “fine dining” experience that the grubby circumstances will allow.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Vocabulary lists containing plurality
U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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Turtles All the Way Down
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Chapter 12: The Jackson Era
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