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Curiously, Perry's fan base is predominately tween, the same demographic that flocked to her shows donning kitty ears 20 years ago.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Ben Bridge Jeweler currently has 36 retail stores predominately in the western United States, including official Rolex boutiques in Seattle, San Diego and Honolulu.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Bridgewater has played 10 seasons in the NFL, predominately with the Minnesota Vikings, who he was selected by in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
On the east side of the 101 was East Palo Alto, which was predominately Black.
—David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2025
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Ben Bridge Jeweler currently has 36 retail stores predominately in the western United States, including official Rolex boutiques in Seattle, San Diego and Honolulu.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Bridgewater has played 10 seasons in the NFL, predominately with the Minnesota Vikings, who he was selected by in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
On the east side of the 101 was East Palo Alto, which was predominately Black.
—David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predominately
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The Bangladeshi ‘Gen Z revolution’ involved weeks of intense protests, predominantly led by students, and resulted in the ousting of the nation’s long-serving leader Sheikh Hasina.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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The children were predominantly Black, and Lorincz, a white woman then in her late fifties, interpreted their ordinary play as an ongoing crime, or a conspiracy to drive her insane.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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As the book of Ecclesiastes notes, nothing is ever really new, mainly because everything has always been new.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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Throughout his reign of terror, mainly in the 1970s, he was known to have had at least 33 victims.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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The third browser wars The second round of browser wars concluded with Google Chrome’s dominance, mostly due to its speed and integration with the wider Google ecosystem.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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The Charlotte-area group led by local governmental officials is one of 16 regional councils in the state that mostly focus on economic development, planning and social services that extend beyond single communities.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Oct. 2025
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But for all that lean bulkers profess online that their physical changes serve their health, many of them are primarily motivated by aesthetics.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2025
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The answers to these questions are the subject of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts of close to 100 works — primarily contemporary — by 62 Anishinaabe artists from 21 tribes from Michigan and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.—
Jane L. Levere,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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However, unlike beer or cheese, where microbes are intentionally introduced and controlled, fermentation in cocoa beans is a spontaneous process and largely uncontrolled.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Oct. 2025
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The Ellison family has 100% voting control over Paramount Skydance; the Paramount-Skydance deal was largely bankrolled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison (David’s father).—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2025
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This crowd-pleaser doesn’t principally tell Jarrett’s story, though, but that of the promoter, Vera Brandes, who began booking musicians as a teenager and was not yet 20 at the time of Jarrett’s triumph.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Our commerce writer Julia Harrison writes that her Moccamaster One Cup is a delight, principally because of its simplicity as a drip coffee maker—free of extraneous frothers or digital interfaces or timers.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2025
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Semafor traced it to a pair of US life insurers that had funneled policyholders’ cash to 777’s Bermudan reinsurer, which invested it into sports teams, airplanes, a payday lender, and a failing budget airline, among other bets generally unsuited for insurance guarantees.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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It is generally assumed that San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Fred Warner is out for the rest of the season after suffering a broken and dislocated ankle last Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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Tea was consumed chiefly in private; Mother poured out.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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Martin, whose first language is Swedish, is chiefly concerned with melody.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Predominately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predominately. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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