overwhelming majority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverwhelmingandmajority
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overwhelming
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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majority
noun
uk/məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/us/məˈdʒɔː.rə.t̬i/
the larger number or part ...
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At the beginning of the second year, theoverwhelmingmajority(81 %) of maternal first naming with designation involved the mothers' holding and indicating the animals.
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Theoverwhelmingmajorityof respondents in both groups used corrective lenses.
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However, despite itsoverwhelmingmajorityof 122 out of 182 seats in the legislature, the party found governing more difficult than getting elected.
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Our analysis indicates that theoverwhelmingmajorityof attacks are the result of malformed input exploiting a software vulnerability of a network-attached process.
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There may have been individual cases that arose out of different concerns, but theoverwhelmingmajoritywere about trust.
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Anoverwhelmingmajorityof the respondents agreed with the statement, ' my lifestyle here matches with my expectations of retirement lifestyle'.
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Theoverwhelmingmajorityof the errors consisted of a missing letter.
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However, theoverwhelmingmajoritywill not; the qualifications introduced at the close of this article should not blind us to that insight.
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However, theoverwhelmingmajorityof this literature focuses purely on government coalitions; pre-electoral coalitions are virtually ignored.
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The developing world is where theoverwhelmingmajorityof children live and where the majority of the labor force contributing to the global economy resides.
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Theoverwhelmingmajority(77 %) of the sample and the age group were married or cohabiting.
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Theoverwhelmingmajorityof studies reported significantly better results with active intervention against hazardous alcohol consumption.
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For theoverwhelmingmajorityof subjects (92 %, n=48), the preoccupation with becoming an amputee was first manifested by their pretending to be an amputee.
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Contemporary studies indicate that theoverwhelmingmajorityof voters are literally completely unaware of the vast majority of what the democratic state is doing.
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Anoverwhelmingmajorityof adults (fifty-six) and parents of twenty-four boys thought a special school was a good idea.
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The spreadsheet is the programming language of choice for theoverwhelmingmajorityof these end-users.
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This is particularly crucial for theoverwhelmingmajorityof markets that depend on vendor fees for operation.
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Returns instead brought to the legislature anoverwhelmingmajorityof members who accepted the established system.
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Theoverwhelmingmajorityof villagers farm groundnuts and millet, and have little or no education.
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