How to Use plurality in a Sentence

plurality

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  • Aiken then seemed poised to pick up the plurality on the fourth vote.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Still, the plurality of the list was made up of tech companies, with 41 making the cut.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 11 Jan. 2023
  • But this month, that slipped to support by a plurality, 48% for and 33% against.
    — Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • This set brings a plurality of things to the bar table, nine in total.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The winner would be the candidate with the most votes, which could be a small plurality.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The Republicans tried, but failed, to use the plurality rule to end the debate.
    — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Like Trump, Vance won a plurality (in this instance, about a third of the vote) en route to the nomination.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 4 May 2022
  • Strong was the first candidate in the race and won the plurality in all five of the counties that make up the north Alabama district.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 May 2022
  • Prakash’s point is made clear by the title’s plurality: Salad is not just for the warm-weather months.
    — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Still, as Pew noted, a plurality of U.S. adults are in agreement on the matter.
    — Steven Rosenbush, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Though PiS won the plurality with about 35.4 percent of the vote, it is left without a path to a governing coalition.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Just as many now say gas prices are going down, with a one-third plurality saying prices have been staying the same.
    — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The Greek atomists also believed in the plurality of worlds.
    — Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Most of Afghanistan is Sunni, and ethnic Pashtuns — who make up most of the Taliban’s ranks — are a plurality.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • This is a case in which a candidate receives a plurality of votes in the first round but not the majority of them.
    — Sarah Almukhtar, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The other 48 states have plurality, or winner-take-all, voting, in which a candidate can win with less than 50% of the vote.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In 2000, the plurality of U.S. sanctions worldwide were against Iran.
    — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • To end the stalemate, the House decided to adopt a plurality rule, which bypassed the need for a majority.
    — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Published at the beginning of June, the poll found a narrow plurality of people who felt gun laws are not strict enough.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
  • Later, it was cited as 23 or 24 weeks in the Casey plurality opinion.
    — Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • As ballot counting began Tuesday, a plurality of Democrats ranked Adams as their first choice in the race.
    — Time, 23 June 2021
  • People surveyed said that crime was, by far, the biggest issue facing the city, with a plurality of 44%.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, ajc, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Pollsters have widely predicted that the party will win a plurality but draw less than 50 percent of the vote for the first time.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 29 May 2024
  • This system opens the way for Gross, or another strong Democrat, to win even if Tshibaka gets a plurality on the first count.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
  • Instead, someone in this congressional race could win with a plurality as small as just over a third of the vote.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Those 1,100 counties hold a plurality of the nation’s up-for-grabs electorate.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The 1856 fight for speaker took two months, the longest in history, and was only resolved with a plurality vote.
    — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Lincoln won the Electoral College but came away with only a plurality of the popular vote in a four-way race.
    — Jay Reeves and Julie Carr Smythe, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Prior to the war, Fatah commanded a small plurality in the same poll (26-22 percent).
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But these laws, which have been adopted incrementally over time, are not formally defined, and most of them can be amended or annulled by a plurality of votes in the Knesset, just like any other law.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024

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