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- noun Common misspelling of
preponderance .
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Examples
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Therefore, the father is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and this conclusion shouldn't trouble us, because even with full certainty of the dead man's guilt, or with a preponderence standard, we'd convict the father.
The Preponderance of the Evidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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By the way, have you ever noticed the preponderence of douchebags named Chad?
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The best writers were producing their best stuff at this time, and despite the preponderence of seemingly endless dynasties of giant robots every story had new turf to stake out.
Crown Jewels of Anime: Galaxy Drifter Vifam » Fanboy.com 2008
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What ended up defeating them in both world wars was the preponderence of manpower and material supplies that we were able to bring against them.
Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Civil War: Now With Better Drive Shafts 2007
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Even if that's the whole truth, it no more implies that a cell phone ban makes business sense than the preponderence of non-smokers implies that a smoking ban makes business sense.
Freedom to Cell, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A bare preponderance of the evidence since 1980 supports Hillary's theory, the overwhelming preponderence of the evidence since 2004 supports Obama's.
Mark Penn: Hey, Guess What -- The National Polls Matter Again! 2009
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My gut tells me that the terrible math education in this country disproportionately affects young women not to mention the preponderence of example/picture based texts with little or no verbal explantions.
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While I agree that is likely, does it show by a preponderence of the evidence that something wrong is being perpetuated?
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Let us suppose that the tendency to either fight or flight is evenly distributed within most populations and that the preponderence for the use of one strategy or the other is likely culturally determined or learned.
Archive 2009-04-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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Instead we have a preponderence of mathematical models or interesting stastical models on large data-sets.
Confession of a Broken Planner, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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