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preponderate

[pri-pon-duh-rayt] / prɪˈpɒn dəˌreɪt /


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“If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."

From Time Magazine Archive

While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath.

From Time Magazine Archive

These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, did not the chances that Craig would not regain his faculties vastly preponderate?

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

The only difference was, when the measure had assumed its final shape, whether the good it contained so far preponderated over its acknowledged evil, as to justify the reception and support of the whole together.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster

He was of dual nature,—and where the philosopher, the metaphysician and the divine preponderated in him, they completely over-weighted the exquisite, ethereal imagination, which was so infinitely more precious, had he known it.

From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron

The General was too cool and self-controlled to be always the loser, and up to the time of our story, this one active vice had rather preponderated in favor of his own interests.

From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

The market day close at hand still preponderated over any day even a year off.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Among the commodities for sale jack-fruits preponderated, it being the month of Asadh.

From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

"The League cannot ignore the existence of Japan as a world power, and especially as a power with the preponderating position in Eastern Asia."

From Time Magazine Archive

The subsequent marshalling of the cells is disguised by their association with a preponderating mass of inert material.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig

You contend that there is “decidedly preponderating evidence” for reading instead, “Great Is the mystery of godliness, who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,” &c.:

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon

This law of nature becomes most apparent when one compares the preponderating power of Rome against Carthage, with its weakness against the Cimbri and Mithradates.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

If Condorcet wrote just before his death his immortal Sketch, Voltaire took a preponderating part in the creation of the intellectual atmosphere in which Condorcet lived and could develop his genius.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote


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