overwhelmingly

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In one poll after another in recent weeks, respondents have overwhelmingly voiced concerns about AI, a challenge to claims by industry executives that their technology would gain popularity by improving people’s lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“The dangers are so much different. Instead of an explosion, it just turns off. There’s no radioactive waste. So this light touch is exactly what the Congress overwhelmingly … wanted the NRC to do.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has long puzzled scientists: Why are humans so overwhelmingly right-handed?

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

"They are overwhelmingly polite, decent, honest, straightforward - when we talk about the community, the teenagers are a part of our community too."

From BBC • May 15, 2026

In the years immediately following the flood, Boston’s citizens, most of whom were determined that such a tragedy never take place again, voted overwhelmingly to increase the budget of the city’s building department substantially.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler