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preponderance
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  • What I mean is that since the preponderance of cultural influences has come down to us from European early settlers, and since those early settlers inflicted their values on the "benighted" cultures they encountered ("benighted," from the Old English, meaning "anyone darker than myself"), those inflicted values have gained ascendancy.†  (source)
  • I've never seen such a preponderance of evidence implicating a suspect.†  (source)
  • It seemed to Cass very much as it always had, run-down, and with a preponderance of very rough-looking people.†  (source)
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  • She became aware, as she drew close to the Queen, of a preponderance of faeries standing very near them, in a circle around their Lady.†  (source)
  • But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter.†  (source)
  • And while it is questionable on which side the scale will preponderate, it is certain that a government less expensive would be incompetent to the purposes of the Union.†  (source)
  • He had been a very small boy when his father, Daniel Tracy Touchett, a native of Rutland, in the State of Vermont, came to England as subordinate partner in a banking-house where some ten years later he gained preponderant control.†  (source)
  • "Perhaps," says Simon, "we are also — preponderantly — what we forget."†  (source)
  • Lanier couldn't prove it by a preponderance of evidence, but he could certainly imply it in a powerful way.†  (source)
  • While the foregoing conversation was proceeding, Master Wackford, finding himself unnoticed, and feeling his preponderating inclinations strong upon him, had by little and little sidled up to the table and attacked the food with such slight skirmishing as drawing his fingers round and round the inside of the plates, and afterwards sucking them with infinite relish; picking the bread, and dragging the pieces over the surface of the butter; pocketing lumps of sugar, pretending all the time to be absorbed in thought; and so forth.†  (source)
  • To make the novel wants and interests, which the growing principle of equality introduced, preponderate in government, our contemporaries had to overturn or to coerce the established powers.†  (source)
  • I worked the thing out with the Presidents of the United States once, and found that way over half of them were light-haired—yet think of the preponderant number of brunettes in the race.†  (source)
  • It is a disease of pregnancy, of mysterious origin, found preponderantly among poor women.†  (source)
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