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preponderance

 noun
     
pre‧pon‧de‧rance formal
1

a preponderance of something

if there is a preponderance of people or things of a particular type in a group, there are more of that type than of any other:
There is a preponderance of female students in the music department.
2

a preponderance of the evidence

law most of the evidence in a law case
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