the bulk

noun

: most of something : the largest part of something
We spent the bulk of the summer at the beach.
The great bulk of these people are extremely poor.

Examples of the bulk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Under Harris, the bulk of personal gains would come to those with lower and lower-middle incomes, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024 Until then, the bulk of NASA’s astrobiology funding had focused on Mars—a world that is almost certainly sterile today (at least on the surface), but which may have hosted life some 3 to 4 billion years ago in its warmer, wetter past. Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024 Over 230 people died in the storm, the bulk of them in Appalachia. Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024 The deductible is the amount consumers must pay out of pocket before the bulk of their coverage can kick in. Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the bulk 

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“The bulk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20bulk. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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