as in mostly
for the most part
a predominantly middle-class neighborhood
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Neighbors worry a data center would create high-skilled jobs out of reach for residents in the predominantly Black area, where only about 11% of residents earn a degree beyond high school, according to the 2023 census.
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Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
To begin with, dissidents in the post-Stalin era, in contrast to their pre-revolutionary predecessors, emerged predominantly from scientific, mathematical, and technical fields.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Although some American paper manufacturers had also begun to make and sell papers around the turn of the twentieth century, these companies sold their products only or predominantly at home.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
Scott Olson / Getty Images Bovino has faced criticism in the past for tactics used in an immigration enforcement operation in predominantly Latino Kern County, California.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
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Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
To begin with, dissidents in the post-Stalin era, in contrast to their pre-revolutionary predecessors, emerged predominantly from scientific, mathematical, and technical fields.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Although some American paper manufacturers had also begun to make and sell papers around the turn of the twentieth century, these companies sold their products only or predominantly at home.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
Scott Olson / Getty Images Bovino has faced criticism in the past for tactics used in an immigration enforcement operation in predominantly Latino Kern County, California.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predominantly
Adverb
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The Uncut Gems star and wife Jackie tied the knot back in 2003, and have been tight-knit ever since, keeping their personal life mostly private while turning many of their film projects into family affairs.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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In October 2011, during the peak of Glee, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk debuted a horror series that eventually broke ground as the first anthology to reinvent itself each season with a brand-new story, setting, and characters played by (mostly) familiar faces.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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The 5-star analyst mainly noted lucrative prospects in agentic security for CrowdStrike and the evolution of its agentic security operations center (SOC).—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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For 70 years, three families — the Joneses, the Hoppers, and the Creagers — battled for influence, mainly to score the coveted county jobs locals depended on for income, regularly accusing one another of corruption and election rigging.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Listeria monocytogenes, or Lm, is a bacterium that causes listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, individuals with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and their newborns.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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However, the project’s current strengths are primarily systems integration and ambition.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Max & Helen’s is chiefly inspired by Maine’s Palace Diner, which is widely noted for its elevation of comfort-food staples.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Sep. 2025
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This evolved into a prototype chiefly engineered by Burrell Smith, selecting for its CPU the 8-bit Motorola 6809 as an upgrade from the Apple II's MOS 6502 but still keeping costs low.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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However, accessibility largely depends on policy, and tuition typically ranges from $5,000 to $10,000 a year.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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It’s largely set on the gloomy campus of Stoneridge College, and brings Moreno-Garcia’s signature horror skills to the dark academia genre.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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However, surging production, led principally by Chinese mining companies, had cratered the price to a nine-year low, leading the DRC to impose the restrictions and in turn drawing ire from producers.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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By drawing his understanding of the king principally from Harvey’s travelogue, and likely a string of others produced in the English-speaking world, Welles ended up making his career promoting what was merely another caricature of an actual person, a historical figure, and an important one at that.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Predominantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predominantly. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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