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preponderate

[pri-pon-duh-rayt] / prɪˈpɒn dəˌreɪt /


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“If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa.

From Time Magazine Archive

He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."

From Time Magazine Archive

While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case of inland letters, the first and third factors preponderate to such a degree that their cost alone need be taken into consideration in fixing the rate.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith

On the whole perhaps the good preponderated, for they undoubtedly aided in postponing a revolution for which the world was not yet ready.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

On the morning of August 7 the trivial, with us, preponderated.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

The Norsemen preponderated in Man; and the constitution of the island is in many parts Scandinavian, though the language be Keltic.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

But the Doric religion seems here to have preponderated, and to have supplanted the elementary symbols so evident in the Hyacinthia.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

In wealth and resources the North vastly preponderated.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris

"The League cannot ignore the existence of Japan as a world power, and especially as a power with the preponderating position in Eastern Asia."

From Time Magazine Archive

There’s a preponderating number of unattached young men in the newly-opened parts of the Dominion.”

From The Protector by Harold Bindloss

But only by exerting the whole available strength of the VIIIth Corps had it been possible to withstand the preponderating attack of the enemy.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth

Mr. Egerton, the indignation preponderating over the amusement.—"Probably just as I am about to do."

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

Verily, my lord Bishop, your notion of what constitutes “clearly preponderating Evidence” must be freely admitted to be at once original and peculiar.

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon


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