predominately

adverb

pre·​dom·​i·​nate·​ly pri-ˈdä-mə-nət-lē How to pronounce predominately (audio)
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: predominantly

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Ticket buyers were predominately male (about 61%) and many were on the younger side, with slightly more than half the audience under the age of 25, according to PostTrak exit polls. — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026 Juliana, who was 16 years old and Black, was found May 8 hanged from a tree near a predominately Black church in north Charlotte after going missing for several days. — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026 Grumpy and dour George I, who predominately spoke German and little English despite being an English king, despised his heir, George Augustus. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026 Meanwhile, the United States government has retooled its refugee program to prioritize Afrikaners, or white South Africans of predominately Dutch descent. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for predominately

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First Known Use

1594, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of predominately was in 1594

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