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plurality
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  • He had bound the might of units, only to find that it was assumed by pluralities.†  (source)
  • This is especially obvious at Armco, which employed a plurality of the town's population.†  (source)
  • Whatever portable plurality she found, she organized into neat lines, according to their size, shape, or gradations of color.†  (source)
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  • But the plurality of the paranormal dictates it.†  (source)
  • ——Your objection to pluralities is being righteous over-much.†  (source)
  • Precisely at the same hour in which Mehring and Langner were being done to death, the overwhelming plurality of human beings, two miles away on the Polish farms, five thousand miles away in New York, were sleeping or eating or going to a film or making love or worrying about the dentist.†  (source)
  • Plurality Hides Faults, Responsibility†  (source)
  • The balance all went for actual votes, and on a day of Democratic landslides they elected "Scotty" Doyle, the ex-tenpin setter, by nearly a thousand plurality—and beginning at five o'clock in the afternoon, and ending at three the next morning, Jurgis treated himself to a most unholy and horrible "jag."†  (source)
  • 'Not without regard to the import of the word as conveying unity or plurality of idea'—tell me again what that means, Ben.†  (source)
  • And yet still further pondering—while I jerked him now and then from between the whale and ship, which would threaten to jam him—still further pondering, I say, I saw that this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in most cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a plurality of other mortals.†  (source)
  • Mrs Squeers, when excited, was accustomed to use strong language, and, moreover, to make use of a plurality of epithets, some of which were of a figurative kind, as the word peacock, and furthermore the allusion to Nicholas's nose, which was not intended to be taken in its literal sense, but rather to bear a latitude of construction according to the fancy of the hearers.†  (source)
  • Self is a plurality, but pluralities can also be integrated, right?†  (source)
  • But of Sam-he did the same thing-compounding this plurality of heresies-burying the true Word even deeper ....†  (source)
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