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Recent Examples of plurality
Despite the Stanley Cup drought, there's still little debate that hockey is Canada's sport, at least in plurality.
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David K. Li, NBC news, 4 June 2025
That’s a far cry from a generation ago, when Democrat Bill Clinton won pluralities in Johnson County on his way to capturing Kentucky’s electoral votes in the 1992 and 1996 White House races.
—Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
Whereas the majority of students were white in 1960, Latinos now make up a majority of college-age individuals in California and a plurality of college students.
—Edsource, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
The ultimate goal is to support heterogeneous works in terms of language, production scale and artistic vision to contribute to the plurality and vitality of contemporary cinema.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 14 May 2025
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David K. Li, NBC news, 4 June 2025
That’s a far cry from a generation ago, when Democrat Bill Clinton won pluralities in Johnson County on his way to capturing Kentucky’s electoral votes in the 1992 and 1996 White House races.
—Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
Whereas the majority of students were white in 1960, Latinos now make up a majority of college-age individuals in California and a plurality of college students.
—Edsource, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
The ultimate goal is to support heterogeneous works in terms of language, production scale and artistic vision to contribute to the plurality and vitality of contemporary cinema.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plurality
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Where are the majority of U.S. hot car deaths Texas leads the nation with 160 hot car deaths, according to KidsandCarSafety.org.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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President Trump’s approval rating is underwater and a majority of voters believe the country is on the wrong track, according to a new poll released Friday.—
Caroline Vakil,
The Hill,
27 June 2025
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Just below the altar, the cinerary casket was banked by a glorious profusion of sweet peas, Reinaldo’s favorite flowers.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
29 Mar. 2025
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However, Rosenbaum argues, a profusion of biographies and publications focused on Bloomsbury since the 1960s is proof of ongoing curiosity about the phenomenon and the people involved in it.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2025
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There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
26 June 2025
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Like many women who have created literary salons or used their wealth and privilege to put themselves at the center of things, Sylvia Lynd is now mainly remembered—if at all—for her weekly parties at 5 Keats Grove, Hampstead.—
Nicola Wilson
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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As scholar Angela Davis pointed out, the Black single mothers of America did not constitute a matriarchy in any sense that implied a preponderance of social power.—
Augustine Sedgewick,
Time,
13 June 2025
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Plus, the West has won the preponderance of NBA titles during that stretch.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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Can the sport maneuver around a host of U.S. traffic — no top-tier American driver, an abundance of NASCAR competition and a European-race television schedule that’s more breakfast-time than primetime — to finally get out of the pack?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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The calculations of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which correctly predict the abundances of hydrogen and helium in the Universe, put strict constraints on how much light-emitting matter there can be, and that number simply isn’t large enough to accommodate all these disparate results.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
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The story of a photographer, haunted by childhood guilt, who travels to remote Himalayan Sector K to investigate a mysterious phenomenon – this mystery/drama highlights the plight of children forced to work trawling through giant rubbish heaps in search of things that can be monetized.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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Canning lay crumpled in a heap next to the mound while the bullpen phone rang with the directive to get Austin Warren into the game.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2025
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“Plurality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plurality. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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