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predominantly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
predominantly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Plumage of drakes predominantly black, of ducks mainly brown; tail short, pointed.
▪ So I became a shoe salesman in a department store that had a predominantly black clientele.
▪ It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black, although there was little evidence for this belief.
▪ He said he was a member of the Congress of Racial Equality, a predominantly black civil rights group.
▪ Although predominantly black, the looters included people of all races.
▪ Ballard counted the number of students qualified to enroll at City in the 1968 graduating classes of two predominantly black high schools.
▪ Its predominantly black and brown members have virtually nothing to offer a united body other than themselves and their supporters.
▪ But none of them carries a show, and there are no drama series and few movies that feature predominantly black casts.
concerned
▪ And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
female
▪ A predominantly female race, they have been known to take mortals to be their husbands.
▪ Co-workers have always been predominantly female, he promoted women to top levels from the get-go.
▪ The auditorium was comfortably full, and predominantly female.
▪ The workplaces embrace factors such as a closed shop environment, a multi-union situation and a predominantly female labour force.
male
▪ They also, to a greater or lesser extent, existed outside mainstream, predominantly male controlled, hierarchical structures.
▪ The largely southern based and predominantly male rambling clubs were bastions of class exclusivity.
▪ The principal feminist challenge to psychology's predominantly male subjects and masculine subject matter is, again, an egalitarian one.
▪ It was an aggressive assertion of a predominantly male, working-class integrity against incursions from middle-class intellectuals and foreign influence.
▪ First, they extend its existing range, studying female subjects in areas which have previously been researched using predominantly male samples.
▪ Therefore, the police, magistrates and judges, who are all predominantly male, will tend to leniency.
▪ And the predominantly male legal establishment is naturally reluctant to be dispossessed.
▪ However, in contrast to magistrates judges are not just predominantly male, they are almost exclusively so.
rural
▪ At a local scale, table 5.5 shows differences in tenure within Devon, an example of a predominantly rural county.
▪ Anglicans were still too heavily committed to an organization suited to a predominantly rural society.
▪ This model was intended to enhance the practical skills and productivity of predominantly rural populations.
▪ In predominantly rural areas these discrepancies are most marked, reflecting a low social valuation of education for girls.
white
▪ It is predominantly white, but the away strip is even more garish, a mix of red, white and blue.
▪ Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.
▪ Colour: Its body is predominantly white and has horizontal blue stripes towards the underside which is yellow.
▪ The predominantly white jury, which ultimately rendered the verdict, was composed of six men and six women.
▪ It is predominantly white, with some red markings about the neck and cheeks in particular, and is a dual-purpose type.
▪ The best baseball was in the predominantly white neighborhoods.
▪ Like feminist psychologists in general, lesbian psychologists are predominantly white and middle class.
■ VERB
draw
▪ It is the first to be drawn predominantly from the left, with no fewer than nine ex-communists in the 21-member cabinet.
use
▪ They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists' arguments, for example.
▪ Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers, especially in the grocery trade.
▪ First, they extend its existing range, studying female subjects in areas which have previously been researched using predominantly male samples.
▪ These are the non-renewable sources of energy that have been used predominantly in the past.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a predominantly middle-class neighborhood
▪ As a civil engineer, Susan will be competing in a predominantly male profession.
▪ Our economy is predominantly capitalist.
▪ The character Shylock is a Jew living in a predominantly Christian society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is the first to be drawn predominantly from the left, with no fewer than nine ex-communists in the 21-member cabinet.
▪ Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers, especially in the grocery trade.
▪ Soho was predominantly a male environment: women, to be tolerated had to be either very beautiful, girlfriends or wives.
▪ The above discussion may give the impression that this is a predominantly quantitative study.
▪ The best baseball was in the predominantly white neighborhoods.
▪ The compensatory financing was designed to give temporary support to countries facing short-term fluctuations in export earnings, predominantly primary producing nations.
▪ These easterly areas cater predominantly for caravans, camping and chalets, offering the tourist many facilities and entertainment.
▪ They also, to a greater or lesser extent, existed outside mainstream, predominantly male controlled, hierarchical structures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predominantly

Predominantly \Pre*dom"i*nant*ly\, adv. In a predominant manner.

Wiktionary
predominantly

adv. In a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.

WordNet
predominantly

adv. much greater in number or influence; "the patients are predominantly indigenous" [syn: preponderantly]

Usage examples of "predominantly".

As far as I could determine, the procedure was rare, and it was predominantly performed on women whose doctors had told them it was necessary to preserve their own lives or health, often because they were carrying hydrocephalic babies who were certain to die before, during, or shortly after childbirth.

In this form, as in the Acepan, the response was predominantly flight, the Ket species having matured into a sensible preference to avoid danger whenever possible.

We know that to a depth of about a hundred miles the mantle consists predominantly of a type of rock known as peridotite, but what fills the space beyond is uncertain.

When we reached it, we found it comfortably furnished, with chairs and sofas, a big fireplace and family pictures on the walls, a line of Sackbut faces, predominantly male.

The audience all paid close attention as an unidentifiable gentleman, predominantly dressed in black overcoat and wearing a wide brimmed hat, stepped forward from the cross passage to the other platform nearest Sharman and walked purposefully towards him.

Southern Baptist Alabamans, branched out to the predominantly black neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Assad took power, the Muslim Brotherhood, a loosely knit underground coalition of Sunni Muslim fundamentalist guerrilla groups, which had existed on and off in Syria since the late 1930s, began working to topple the predominantly Alawite Assad regime through a ruthless campaign of assassinations and bombings.

Spanish domination, this religious organization supported the Spanish in their disastrous rule of the predominantly Amerind population.

Wedgwood blue, the heavy silk curtains were blueand-gold striped, and the carpet was an Aubusson that d the rug was was predominantly blue.

Ouida Barnett Atkins teaches history at a predominantly black public school in Jackson.

They were predominantly conifers mixed with a few small broadleaf trees.

Picts of Galloway were predominantly Celtic--a mixture of Gaelic, Cymric, aboriginal and possibly Teutonic elements.

And was it not his demand for the return of German Danzig and the other areas in Poland inhabited predominantly by Germans which led to the German attack on Poland and brought on World War II?

Instead of the straggling, sun-browned stalks of the Grass Hills, the meadows flanking the road bore thicker grasses that, despite the approaching harvest time, were predominantly green.

Bokhara rug, a white leather sofa, a filing cabinet made from mahogany and edged with brass and a large, predominantly blue-and-pink Naghi of the square outside, painted in 1943 and borrowed from the Khedival institute in Al Qahirah.