Michael Moss

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

American Journalist

Harvey V. Fineberg

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

Educator

Marilyn Hacker

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

American Poet

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.

American Politician

Federica Montseny

And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

Spanish Activist

Joel Fuhrman

The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.

American Scientist

Michael Medved

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Woodrow Wilson

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

American President

John J. McLaughlin

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

Chris Ware

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

American Artist

Often used in legal settings to describe evidence that's more convincing than the opposition's.

Legal Context

Indicates more of something, but not necessarily all or total dominance.

Not Totality

Suggests a measurable advantage in number or amount, rather than a qualitative edge.

Quantitative Edge

Reflects a situation where one side holds a dominant position in terms of power or influence.

Power Dynamics

Can be used figuratively to emphasize strong presence or influence, not just physical strength.

Figurative Use

May have positive or negative connotations, depending on whether the dominance is seen as beneficial or harmful.

Positive or Negative

In biology, it usually refers to a high number of species or organisms in an ecosystem.

Biological Abundance

In biology, a larger number of something may not be immediately visible, like bacteria on a surface.

Not Always Visible

The term can hint at ecological imbalances or changes when one group dominates an area.

Ecological Implications

 And what did we find? Not in most cases, and not in the preponderance of cases, but in every single instance where he made some reference to the Holocaust, that his supposed evidence was distorted, half-truth, date-changed, sequence-changed,

Preponderance

Legal Context

Not Totality

Quantitative Edge

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