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preponder en · VERB

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1. To preponderate.
   • As the democrat preponders over the aristocrat, so oxygen prevails over iron, the power of gravity is as much greater than that of magnetism, as regular democracy is superior to haphazard aristocracy . 1814, Simon Willard, The Columbian Union, page 76:
   • However, research preponders towards practical applications, for example, evaluation of two advertising appeals. 2009, K. N. Krishnaswamy, Appa Iyer Sivakumar, M. Mathirajan, Management Research Methodology:
   • Sometimes the thirst for pleasure predominates, then the wish to grow preponders. Back and forth we struggle, from dearth to sterility. 2017, Traumear, Beck, page 283:
   • Plaintiff has the burden of presenting a case which fairly preponders over the defendant's case. 1949, Supreme Court, page 370:
   • The gurgling sound of the falls preponders the air. 2019, Murli Menon, Travel Guide 2019 South East Asia, page 68:
   • As it is, the embellishments preponder over constructive ability, and one sadly reflects here, more than anywhere else, how small in great, and how great in small, things the Japanese really are. 1893 June, Robert Blum, “An Artist in Japan”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 13, number 6, page 749:

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