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- Predominantly.
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Examples
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The population was mixed, though predominatingly Jewish.
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees
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But characteristically and predominatingly, Sex is predicated of
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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But here is where both foes and friends go aground; both attempt to inject concepts of honour into transactions predominatingly, and perhaps exclusively, coloured by concepts of morals.
The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920
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However, one thing seemed beyond dispute; it was predominatingly a masculine wickedness.
A Poor Wise Man Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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That does not alter the fact that nearly the whole body of science is man made; that does not alter the fact that men do so predominatingly make history, that you could nearly write a complete history of the world without mentioning a woman's name.
The World Set Free Herbert George 1914
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Modern economic socialism proposes simply to carry a step further our already predominatingly economic social organization by frankly recognizing the economic as the basis of all things in the social life.
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For, after all, the second glance showed him as so much the same, the same to the unbecomingness of his clothes, the flatness of his features, the general effect of decision and placidity that he always, predominatingly, gave.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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The population was mixed, though predominatingly Jewish.
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rhees, Rush, 1860-1939 1902
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Mr. F.H. Dale, an English Inspector of Schools, who, in the last couple of years, has produced two comprehensive blue books on the state of primary and secondary education in Ireland, declared that he found the desire for higher education in Ireland greater than in England; but in spite of this, so far, neither British party has advanced one step in the direction of a permanent solution, pleading as excuse that the fear of strengthening the hands of the priests blocks the way, albeit a university under predominatingly lay control is all that even the hierarchy in Ireland demand; while to add to the groundlessness on which intolerance is based the only institution of a satisfactory kind which is endowed by the State is a Jesuit College supported by what one can only call circuitous means.
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell
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Here’s a novel idea — if you don’t like my diatribes against the predominatingly rotten-to the-core system that ensures the most despicable human beings wield the most power, don’t read them!
Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die.... 2008
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