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• For the great majority of my comic-book work, that one thing would be the publishers.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• But the great majority of people have been nothing but supportive and kind to me.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
• Round one last week was minimal, with the great majority of teams still in regular season mode.
  — J.c. Carnahan, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Don't, because beyond a few superstars, the great majority of actors are in much the same spot as the rest of us.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 23 July 2023
• And the great majority of do it in a center in one of our clinics or other competitors that have clinics.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• That would have torched everyone’s equity and for a lot of our employees that’s the great majority of their wealth.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• This affected the great majority of Indians, who could not afford to buy it.
  — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Mar. 2026
• Uniqlo makes up the great majority of the company’s sales, and investors appear optimistic about where the brand is headed.
  — Marc Bain, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2021
• For the great majority of human history, there was no doubt that women were to be understood as workers par excellance.
  — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
• Despite the debt problems, don’t expect the great majority of properties with expiring debt to wind up in foreclosure.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
• In both bombings, the great majority of victims were civilians, with 38,000 of them children.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
• The foundation loaned out the great majority of the vehicles featured in the exhibition.
  — Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
• By day’s end Friday, the Israeli toll stood at more than 1,300, the great majority of them civilians.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Banks are extending credit to consumers of both kinds, but less so to businesses, which fear that the great majority of their customers will be tightening their belts for years to come.
  — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• He can be relied upon to favor the interests of the city and state’s business leaders regardless of what might be best for the great majority of citizens.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• So are various designers; actually, the great majority of the crew are still inside Iran.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
• Their sources of intelligence repeatedly assured British leaders that the great majority of the colonists remained loyal to the mother country.
  — T.h. Breen, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
• This institution couldn’t use trust to increase revenue – the great majority of reimbursements are paid by third-party insurance companies.
  — Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• The palms had made up the great majority of Rapa Nui’s tree cover, some 16 million trees that blanketed about 70 percent of the island.
  — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• The work must continue, and study after study shows the great majority of corporates increase their reliance on contingent staff in recession to complete key projects on a contingent basis.
  — Jon Younger, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• Utley had the great majority of his success with Philadelphia, and Kent with San Francisco.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• Contributors can leave it up to the United Nations where to direct the money, but donors earmark the great majority of it for specific programs and countries.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• Very simple organisms possess versions of the great majority of the twenty thousand proteins similar to those of complex animals, including us.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• Overall, though, the great majority of Americans -- 83% according to the survey -- have still never ridden in, let alone driven, an electric vehicle.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 8 July 2022
• Replays over the weekend bumped up the linear total some, but as is usually the case with premium cablers in recent years, the great majority of P-Valley’s audience came via other means.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
• The same guy who promised to keep us out of debilitating foreign conflicts has volunteered for the job of nation-building in a place about which the great majority of Americans know little and, until recently, cared less.
  — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
• The single race-unknown minor who made the great majority of the HBCU threats could be a personal bigot, or could have had another motivation for making the calls.
  — Wilfred Reilly, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Despite what some commentators currently view as an extraordinary cash position at Berkshire, the great majority of your money remains in equities.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
• The audience of some 3,500—the great majority of whom undoubtedly claim to be followers of Jesus—responded to Trump’s remarks with a standing ovation.
  — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
• But those are exceptional cases, Tallamy maintains, and the great majority of insects accidentally introduced to North America are never heard from again.
  — Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020