How to Use in the majority in a Sentence

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  • Kavanaugh was in the majority 96% of the time, Roberts 95% of the time.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 July 2023
  • How are the spa and gym? Plunge pools or hot tubs are available in the majority of the rooms.
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
  • He’s been given the lead in the majority of his starts and pitched it away.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • Firearms were used in the majority of the deaths at 76 percent.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • After four years in the majority, Democrats lost the House once again.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And those two justices, Jon, were most in the majority this term 95 percent of the time.
    ABC News, 2 July 2023
  • Even in most of the states with no requirement on the books, AEDs are available in the majority of schools.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Kohl served as chair of all three panels when Democrats were in the majority.
    Todd Richmond, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Now their lawmakers are in the majority and want to be able to remake the rules.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • Most of the 10 episodes run for 25 minutes or less, and in the majority of them, very little happens.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 May 2025
  • The two judges in the majority did not explain their reasons.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But such dissenting opinions were in the majority in the weeks to come.
    Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The ruling ensures, for now, full access to the drug, which is used in the majority of abortions in the United States.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 2 July 2024
  • It is currently used in the majority of abortions in the US.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 June 2024
  • The City Council’s 3-2 vote for the appeal with Jensen in the majority could open the door to a legal challenge of the decision.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Mehta’s bullish call puts him in the majority of Wall Street analysts.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 13 May 2025
  • And there aren't enough votes in the House either, now that Republicans are in the majority.
    Caroline Linton, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Here’s to hoping one day weed will be legal in the majority of countries.
    Lindsey Bartlett, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
  • According to the justices in the majority, the lawyers should have brought their case to a judge in Texas, where the deportees had been briefly detained.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Despite the uptick, the report found only 1 in 3 people think they would be missed in the majority of their meetings.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • On Friday, the state’s high court ruled 4-3 that the veto was lawful, with all of the liberal justices in the majority.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 18 Apr. 2025
  • April 15 is also the deadline in the majority of states that collect income tax.
    Dan Avery, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
  • In some ways, the well-to-do class isn’t so different from the electorate, as polls have shown Mr. Trump leading in the majority of battleground states.
    Rob Copeland, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • If the two parties split those two, that puts Republicans in the majority, by one.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Completing his 18th term, Roberts was in the majority in every one of the court’s most important cases, and chose to write the opinions in four of them.
    Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • Autopsies found no heart defects in the majority of those who died.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Fentanyl remains the biggest threat in Michigan and across the nation and is involved in the majority of drug overdose deaths.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
  • With high scores in the majority of categories—many well over 9.0—the Google Pixel line of phones is almost impossible to beat for work phone of the year.
    Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Strouse’s move now puts him in the majority of analysts on Wall Street with a neutral view of the stock, which was nearly 2% lower in the premarket Tuesday.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 15 July 2025
  • Humpback whales were involved in the majority of the encounters, participating in 68% of them, while bottlenose dolphins took part in 51%.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025

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