preponderance

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As for nontraded BDCs, an Oppenheimer analysis indicates these account for roughly 21% of revenue, which is significant but not the preponderance of the revenue base.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Evidence of this practice is the preponderance of A’s in student grades at Harvard and other formerly elite universities and colleges.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

A preponderance so crushing will resist to the last.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

I’ve never been more grateful to receive such a preponderance of unsolicited messages, and that says a lot since speed-deletion skills are a crowning achievement of my decades-long career in journalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

A preponderance of the members were Jewish, a group that had pursued the game for centuries and was highly proficient at it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady