preponderance

Example Sentences

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There's a preponderance of stories emphatically implying that to find one's biological family is to unlock all the secrets of one's identity.

From Salon

In words particularly apt for our present world, he added: "America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained."

From Salon

Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat at the hearing, told The Washington Times that the preponderance of the testimony showed that an all-of-the-above solution is needed.

From Washington Times

By finding Trump liable, the jury declared that the “preponderance of the evidence” supported Carroll’s accusation that he attacked her in the dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s.

From New York Times

And those solutions, by a significant preponderance, would make us a much more progressive country than we are today—as I've written about repeatedly in the past.

From Salon