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Recent Examples of plurality
Here, Harris had a much better showing, with a plurality of respondents, 30%, selecting her.
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
But a plurality of GOP respondents opposed Trump’s pitch to take over the Gaza Strip (44 percent).
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
In November, the candidate who wins a plurality of votes will be the next mayor.
—Maya King, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
President Donald Trump returned to the White House, this time with a national plurality behind him many Democratic operatives believed was impossible.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
But a plurality of GOP respondents opposed Trump’s pitch to take over the Gaza Strip (44 percent).
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
In November, the candidate who wins a plurality of votes will be the next mayor.
—Maya King, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
President Donald Trump returned to the White House, this time with a national plurality behind him many Democratic operatives believed was impossible.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plurality
Noun
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Second, the majority of those runs have been allowed by Wandy Peralta (eight) and Sean Reynolds (four), who are not a part of the high-leverage crew.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 May 2025
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The majority don't pass, like the majority of all bills, but dozens have.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
10 May 2025
Noun
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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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The whole resort felt like an exercise in suspension of disbelief—a rarefied world of oversize opulence and cosmopolitan profusion set against a backdrop of raw nature and majestic isolation.—
Rachel Howard,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The couple had three more children — daughters — and Livy’s seemingly bottomless wealth supported him.—
Mary Ann Gwinn,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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This nod of approval was true for all the shapes (and there’s a welcome wealth of variety here) that the Philips can create.—
Alexis Berger,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
9 May 2025
Noun
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On its face, the slackening of interest in demonstrating against Trump in his second term—despite the preponderance of issues that trigger his opposition every day—can be understood simply as a change in the political atmosphere.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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Such violation has already been observed in quarks (another building block of the universe), but that discrepancy wasn’t enough to account for the preponderance of matter over antimatter.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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First and foremost, abundance means building housing.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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Yet bizarrely, the man who for decades has been a symbol of unapologetic American excess is now defending his tariff policies by making a case against abundance.—
The Editors,
National Review,
6 May 2025
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Dropping search traffic on Apple devices, which recently integrated a heap of AI features, would be a bad sign.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2025
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The letter — pulled together in coordination with the advocacy group Americans for Responsible Growth — heaps more pressure on Tesla and Musk ahead of the company releasing first-quarter earnings results after the close Tuesday.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Plurality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plurality. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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