as in dominant
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greater in number, force, or importance
A preponderant number of visitors are from outside the country.
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Recent Examples of preponderant
Market value was preponderant in determining the value of the piece of land that the state deemed worthy of expropriating.
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Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
But the preponderant migrants’ motivation has been, and continues to be, to provide a better life for their families.
—Bill Gray, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
With preponderant influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, Iran is the regional power that has best been able to take advantage of the crisis in the Middle East.
—F. Gregory Gause Iii, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Or, even preponderant effect, seeing as how there will be dilution of the genetic signal along the wave of advance.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
In some regions, obviously Europe itself, but in much of North America, southern South America, parts of southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand, people of European descent became demographically preponderant.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2012
The relevance and recent growth of regional Mexican music has become undeniable, and today, the genre holds a preponderant place within the industry.
—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2023
But last week in PLoS ONE a paper looking at the patterns of ancestry in the Brazilian population came to a somewhat inverseconclusion as to the self-conception or perception of the preponderant racial identity of that nation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2011
Our prior expectation should be that the admixture is non-trivial, though not preponderant.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
But the preponderant migrants’ motivation has been, and continues to be, to provide a better life for their families.
—Bill Gray, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
With preponderant influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, Iran is the regional power that has best been able to take advantage of the crisis in the Middle East.
—F. Gregory Gause Iii, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Or, even preponderant effect, seeing as how there will be dilution of the genetic signal along the wave of advance.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
In some regions, obviously Europe itself, but in much of North America, southern South America, parts of southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand, people of European descent became demographically preponderant.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2012
The relevance and recent growth of regional Mexican music has become undeniable, and today, the genre holds a preponderant place within the industry.
—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2023
But last week in PLoS ONE a paper looking at the patterns of ancestry in the Brazilian population came to a somewhat inverseconclusion as to the self-conception or perception of the preponderant racial identity of that nation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2011
Our prior expectation should be that the admixture is non-trivial, though not preponderant.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preponderant
Adjective
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Apple’s dominant position on laptop longevity appears to have ended, at least with this Air, even though this is still a very good result.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
11 Mar. 2025
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On the high school travel circuit, Cooper Flagg eschewed the more nationally dominant club teams to suit up, along with his brother and their buddies, for Maine United.—
Sean Gregory,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Still, the market behavior to date – as dizzying and against-consensus has it’s been – has not deviated enough from a typical setback in a post-election growth scare to insist that the rules for assessing this market’s prospects have changed definitively with the leadership the White House.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2025
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The average cost of full coverage in the U.S. is now $2,638 per year, meaning the typical household spends 3.39% of its income on insurance for just one car.—
Ben Kesslen,
Quartz,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Spirit is headquartered in Dania Beach and remains one of the predominant carriers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.—
David Lyons,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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One of the predominant worries of our age is the desire to live authentically.—
David Katz,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And the comic books that featured them were often used as metaphors for social issues (the X-Men, for example, were representative of discrimination).—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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In Alaska and New Mexico, for example, the average retiree benefit is more than $100 greater than each state’s median payment, which tends to be more representative of each place’s retiree population.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Preponderant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preponderant. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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