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Recent Examples of plurality
In a plurality situation, the last-place candidate is eliminated and her or his supporters’ voters are redistributed according to their preferences.
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 17 June 2025
While the results varied, some polls found a plurality to majority support for the mass deportations Trump was promising on the campaign trail.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
The board of trustees of top private universities includes a plurality of finance and consulting folks but tend to lack scholars or community-minded individuals.
—Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
Despite the Stanley Cup drought, there's still little debate that hockey is Canada's sport, at least in plurality.
—David K. Li, NBC news, 4 June 2025
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 17 June 2025
While the results varied, some polls found a plurality to majority support for the mass deportations Trump was promising on the campaign trail.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
The board of trustees of top private universities includes a plurality of finance and consulting folks but tend to lack scholars or community-minded individuals.
—Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
Despite the Stanley Cup drought, there's still little debate that hockey is Canada's sport, at least in plurality.
—David K. Li, NBC news, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plurality
Noun
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Trump said his second invite came as an attempt to establish peace in Gaza, where a majority of the fighting has transpired.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
The Washington Examiner,
9 July 2025
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But even after the court's conservative majority limited the use of far-reaching injunctions that block enforcement of a policy across the country, the justices may continue to face a steady drumbeat of emergency appeals seeking their intervention.—
Melissa Quinn
July 9,
CBS News,
9 July 2025
Noun
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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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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 plan would have taxed wealth over $50 million at 2% and wealth over $1 billion at 6%.—
Kyle Khan-Mullins,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Michael Ashley Schulman, chief investment officer at wealth management company Running Point Capital, told Reuters that the lingering contract negotiations could cause Canada Post’s share to drop into the teens by December 2026.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
8 July 2025
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There was a preponderance of youth in our culture at that point.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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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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“Plurality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plurality. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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