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

The socialist Salvador Allende became president after achieving a narrow 36.61% plurality in an election that saw his two opponents secure a combined 63.38% of the vote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 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

But others thought that the plurality of worlds followed immediately from the ideas of Copernicus and Kepler and found themselves aghast.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan