majority

Example Sentences

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The top two vote-getters in the primary will compete in the Nov. 3 general election unless one candidate wins a majority in June.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

“The brain-computer interface will become a technology like the smartphone, where the vast majority of people have one,” says He.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

It’s the same LLC that they used to buy a majority of the dwellings they shared during their marriage.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Dissanayake's leftist JVP, or the People's Liberation Front, won a two-thirds majority at the November 2024 parliamentary elections after his own victory two months earlier in the presidential poll.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

The vast majority of those arrested are charged with relatively minor crimes.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander