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What does preponderate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
  2. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
  4. (intransitive) To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate
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The cases of hyperpyrexia preponderate in first attacks of rheumatic fever.
We must remember that the minuter telescopic stars preponderate enormously in and near the Milky Way.
If the members of it are to revert to a dependence on the democratic choice, the democratic scale will preponderate.
In recent years neighborhoodism has been growing in NY, particularly where brownstones rather than highrises preponderate.
So greatly does the influence of the Will preponderate that of the Intelligence.
Raumland makes some of its Sekte from the same three grape varieties that preponderate in Champagne – pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay.

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