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What does preponderance mean?

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Noun
  1. Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
  2. (obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
  3. The greater portion of the weight.
  4. The majority.
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He raised the possibility that this might have something to do with male preponderance at the very top of research science.
This conclusion is supported by the great preponderance of informed commentary.
Their apparent preponderance may be due to the fact that they have been the most commonly used corticosteroids.
The preponderance of studies support the connection between newspaper content and circulation.
His preponderance of strength allowed him to perform several offensive operations in near parallel.
The preponderance of data came from experiments with temperate and coniferous trees.

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