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plurality

noun as in large part of a group

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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.

From Salon

Next Tuesday will reveal whether a majority of the American public – or at least a plurality in enough key battleground states - agrees.

From BBC

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.

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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