PREDOMINATELY Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

predominately

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as in predominantly

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Recent Examples of predominately Ann and Nancy punched through a rock scene in the Seventies that was predominately led by males. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026 American buyers, predominately, want to breathe, post-Covid. — The Editors, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2026 The practices that have been predominately led by women—the breathwork circles, the healing communities—become the market opportunity that male founders pitch to male investors using the language of scale, disruption and total addressable market. — Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2026 The residents are predominately low-income, Black and Hispanic. — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for predominately

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In Boxtown, the predominantly Black neighborhood closest to the facility, the cancer risk already runs four times the national average.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
Lucky’s initial escape through a casino floor is shot predominantly in midrange close-ups, with no experimentation in building tension through unexpected compositions or cuts.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 July 2026

Definition of predominantly

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Drafted as a running back, Hawthorne served mainly as a backup, amassing 527 career rushing yards and seven touchdowns.

— Jim Barnes July 11, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2026
Relations between the Malian military junta and Algeria began to deteriorate two years ago, when Mali ended a crucial 2015 peace deal with local Azawad separatists, mainly mediated by Algeria.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

Definition of mainly

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Their tropical cocktails and frozen delights are easily crushable, primarily made with vodka, mezcal, rum and tequila.

— Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
Although Chicago had its issues with redlining and massive disinvestment that left generational scars on some primarily Black neighborhoods, the small town ethos held little sway over me.

— Dawn M. Turner, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of primarily

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Giselle Garcia, program director for NorCal Resist, said the arrest data largely tracks with the organization’s own informal counts though emphasized much enforcement goes unaccounted for if families aren’t willing to speak up.

— Mathew Miranda July 9, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
During the war, as the death toll ticked upward in the enclave, search operations for bodies largely stopped, either because most heavy equipment was destroyed, fuel became scarce or many strike sites became inaccessible due to the fighting.

— Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of largely

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Oppenheimer’s note was principally focused, fitting for a global strategist, on how equity returns will be reshaped in a new regime.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
The laser targeted one of three ground stations, principally NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility in California, with a third, experimental ground station at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 June 2026

Definition of principally

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Bouaddi was born into an aspirational family in Creil — a town of around 36,000 people in northern France, around an hour’s drive from Paris, and known chiefly as being where gangster and jailbreaker Redoine Faid is from.

— Tom Williams, New York Times, 9 July 2026
The complaint says Salle’s 2025 painting shares the works’ pose, perspective, clothing, and overall visual impression, differing chiefly in that its subject holds an axe instead of a sledgehammer.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026

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