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plurality
noun as in large part of a group
Example Sentences
Steel and Tran both focused heavily on outreach to Asian American voters, who make up a plurality of the district that runs through 17 cities including Garden Grove, Westminster, Fountain Valley, Buena Park and Cerritos.
The system, which largely grants plurality winners in each state the bulk of its electors, keeps some voters home, O’Donnell argued.
Next Tuesday will reveal whether a majority of the American public – or at least a plurality in enough key battleground states - agrees.
That difficulty is much more pronounced in liberal spaces, where plurality, some pastors say, is considered a positive value and not something to be feared or reversed.
So it's quite the shocker to see recent polls show that a plurality — and in many cases, the majority — of Republicans plan to vote for abortion rights in various state ballot initiatives this November.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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