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majority

noun as in plurality, most

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The majority of CU Boulder cases come from off-campus students.

From Fortune

Busting the filibuster and using a newly unleashed majority to uncork several major changes to the structure of American politics would be a shocking turn of events.

From Vox

Since mid-June, a majority of the new coronavirus deaths each day have occurred in red states.

Polls conducted in the past two months show a majority of Americans worry development of the vaccine is being rushed and a third wouldn’t get inoculated.

From Fortune

The truth is that the majority of gang members never commit a gang-related crime in their life.

I think a large majority of our fans are [other] nationalities.

House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.

Again, I do not know House Majority Whip Scalise or President Obama personally.

This is a state, after all, where Duke, in his statewide race for governor in 1991, received a majority of the white vote.

Though this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated.

Ever since his majority Lord Hetton had annually entered a colt in the great race.

Such is the opinion of this Correspondent to the Times, and it is doubtless the opinion of a fair and just majority.

While the majority pulled in one way there was an active minority that wished the Nana to set up an independent kingdom.

At any rate, whatsoever that curious reservation meant, the majority of the staff were opposed to surrender.

The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to majority, such as: bulk, mass, max, more, preponderance, and superiority.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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