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  • All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them.  (source)
    predominantly = mostly
  • The predominant odor was of old paint from the Dramatics Club canvas flats.  (source)
    predominant = most noticeable (most powerful or influential)
  • Cotton is a predominantly agricultural pursuit.  (source)
    predominantly = mainly (most importantly)
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  • The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity.  (source)
    predominant = most noticeable (most important)
  • "Perhaps he's becoming white," joked another, but the humor masked an underlying question of why Jose Fax had moved his family from Salinas Avenue on the west side, where most Hispanics lived, to a tract home in a predominantly white neighborhood.  (source)
    predominantly = mostly (most common)
  • The image of the sluggish reptile gradually predominated over the image of the quick-moving bird.†  (source)
  • We can assume that large States will want to increase the number of Representatives from their States and their influence will predominate.  (source)
    predominate = be most influential or powerful
  • Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries.†  (source)
  • I'm a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defense, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail.  (source)
    predominance = power or influence
  • It's twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when everyone has come to doubt truth, justice and God.†  (source)
  • It is to be noted that the contributions to this building being made by people of different sects, care was taken in the nomination of trustees, in whom the building and ground was to be vested, that a predominancy should not be given to any sect, lest in time that predominancy might be a means of appropriating the whole to the use of such sect, contrary to the original intention.†  (source)
  • He shifted the conversation to other topics, predominately the status of major cities and population migrations across the continent.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled predominantly.
  • As she lifted her camera and focused, her one predominant emotion was envy, pure and simple.  (source)
    predominant = most influential (most powerful)
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