as in mostly
for the most part
a predominantly middle-class neighborhood
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By the latter half of the '90s and going into the 2000s, the WB was better known for its popular dramas with predominantly white casts, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven, Charmed, Dawson's Creek, and Felicity.
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Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Chlamydia is responsible for half of koala deaths in the country’s wild populations, which are predominantly found in the eucalyptus forests along Australia’s eastern coast.
—Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Most leaders stick to their neighborhoods A pivotal characteristic of contemporary global leader travel is its predominantly intraregional nature.
—Collin J. Meisel, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
The series features a cast of predominantly Polynesian actors speaking in multiple languages and was filmed in Hawai’i and New Zealand as an unprecedented retelling of Hawaiian history from a distinctively native perspective.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
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Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Chlamydia is responsible for half of koala deaths in the country’s wild populations, which are predominantly found in the eucalyptus forests along Australia’s eastern coast.
—Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Most leaders stick to their neighborhoods A pivotal characteristic of contemporary global leader travel is its predominantly intraregional nature.
—Collin J. Meisel, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
The series features a cast of predominantly Polynesian actors speaking in multiple languages and was filmed in Hawai’i and New Zealand as an unprecedented retelling of Hawaiian history from a distinctively native perspective.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predominantly
Adverb
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Kiko mostly bypassed the Hawaiian islands with its fiercest winds, as so many storms have before, and will instead fade off into the Pacific Ocean over the vast western end of the island chain that remains a mystery to many.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The upside, however, to sitting through this questionable season of what has been a mostly dreamy series?—
Vogue,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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In November and December, the above normal fire risk is mainly confined to southern California.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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People mainly wanna talk to me about that.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But 10 days into our Patagonian adventure, a little water—okay, a lot of water—wasn’t enough to deter us from heading out on a Zodiac tour around the Tucker Islets, a small cluster of islands and outcrops in the Strait of Magellan inhabited primarily by Magellanic penguins.—
Stefanie Waldek,
AFAR Media,
12 Sep. 2025
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Much of the world's launch capacity today is used to deploy smaller communications satellites into low-Earth orbit, primarily for broadband connectivity rather than for the video broadcast market once dominated by higher-altitude geosynchronous satellites.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This reflected higher capital expenditure in the period, Dunelm said, chiefly due to acquisition activity.—
Royston Wild,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This unusual chemical process is confined chiefly around the comet's head, not its tail.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The talk show host had not revealed his children's names and has largely kept their faces off of social media.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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And largely that is replaced with people on devices or on video games.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The evolving advances and widespread adoption of generative AI have principally spurred this rising use of AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jhonatan’s story echoes that of many Colombian fighters, driven by a sense of duty, but shaped principally by economic insecurity that makes enlisting abroad a more viable and lucrative option.—
Rebecca Johns,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Predominantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predominantly. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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