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Recent Examples of predominately
Schools with many Pell-eligible students, low college-going populations, and predominately Black and Hispanic students got much more attention this application cycle.
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Scott White, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
Shoppers predominately carted up brand new product launches while also gravitating towards reader-favorite retailers like Target, The Ordinary, Anthropologie, and Carl Friedrick.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024
To date his work has been predominately rap based, and that has worked well.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Despite Jonathan’s support from these and a few other traditional Islamic rulers, the Muslim Buhari won all of the predominately Muslim states in the federation.
—John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2015
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Scott White, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
Shoppers predominately carted up brand new product launches while also gravitating towards reader-favorite retailers like Target, The Ordinary, Anthropologie, and Carl Friedrick.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024
To date his work has been predominately rap based, and that has worked well.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Despite Jonathan’s support from these and a few other traditional Islamic rulers, the Muslim Buhari won all of the predominately Muslim states in the federation.
—John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predominately
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Portland cement — the most common type, developed in the early 19th century — is made predominantly of a substance called clinker.Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The crowd in East Lansing was predominantly youthful, and Harris took the opportunity to connect with Gen-Z voters directly.By Nik Popli/East Lansing, Mich., TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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The big picture: The Harris campaign hasn't spent a lot of time in Illinois, mainly relying on surrogate Gov. JB Pritzker to drum up support among Democrats, including a $5 million donation to the Vice President's campaign, the New York Times reported.Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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This crazy star seems to communicate with a smaller, five-pointed star to its upper right that is mainly light blue, though its loose weave of horizontal and vertical marks also contains other colors.Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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In a study published on November 14th in Geochemical Perspective Letters, the experts explained that isotopic dating and analysis provides chemical evidence that the Lafayette Meteorite mostly likely interacted with liquid water while the rock first formed roughly 742 million years ago.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Those just visiting Charlottetown will enjoy wandering around a charming, mostly flat town with ample restaurants, bookshops and other attractions.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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They were primarily descended from a group of eastern Mediterranean immigrants.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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With the election playing out in the battleground states, Trump and Harris visited California primarily for private fundraising events with wealthy donors.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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In New Jersey, more than 500 fires have started since Oct. 1, largely because of abnormally dry conditions.Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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But Grant Fondo — an attorney with the Goodwin Procter firm who is part of Becker’s five-person, largely pro-bono legal team — tried to poke holes in Chandhok’s testimony, pointing to a series of emails from October 2022.Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Kennedy has pushed a number of public health conspiracies, most prominently around vaccines, and has advocated for other positions that are generally out of the mainstream, such as more availability of unpasteurized milk.Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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Bottom line: The Legislature is generally ineffective at anything and these special sessions merely become backdrops for photo ops.Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024
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Such activity is typical during election seasons, chiefly in competitive purple states across the Rust Belt and Sun Belt.Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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In the days following the murder, all of Lennon’s possessions were meticulously cataloged in a thousand-page inventory and placed in storage, chiefly in the warren of apartments that Ono retained at the Dakota.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
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What an opportunity getting to play someone who is steely and strong and manipulative and just bad, basically.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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So the reader has to imagine that basically there are ballots in a box somewhere.Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Predominately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predominately. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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