plurality

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With Latinos comprising a plurality of California’s population, the absence of a leading candidate of color reflects broader institutional shortcomings rather than problems created by an open field.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Contrast that with the tone of Friedrich Merz, the center-right Chancellor who won a plurality in that election despite Mr. Vance’s intrusions and is Germany’s most pro-U.S. leader in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

That the city where nearly every language and religion on earth already exists in public would somehow collapse under the weight of its own plurality?

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

"The naan tells a story of plurality; of cross-cultural identities co-existing in harmony," he says.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

It was likely that multiple candidates would run in the primary, which meant that Barack would only need to command a plurality of the vote to win the Democratic nomination.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama