preponderance

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As for nontraded BDCs, an Oppenheimer analysis indicates these account for roughly 21% of revenue, which is significant but not the preponderance of the revenue base.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Evidence of this practice is the preponderance of A’s in student grades at Harvard and other formerly elite universities and colleges.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

I’ve never been more grateful to receive such a preponderance of unsolicited messages, and that says a lot since speed-deletion skills are a crowning achievement of my decades-long career in journalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

They were given fair trials in a democracy for their crimes and then found guilty based on the preponderance of the evidence.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2024

According to Fenn, “the great preponderance of the evidence” indicates that the Shoshone also transmitted smallpox down the Columbia River into the Pacific Northwest.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann