preponderantlyformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Very important or urgent
all-important
at all costsidiom
be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
cardinally
chief
imperative
last
last but not leastidiom
leading
life-altering
life-and-death
overriding
primary
prime
principally
prior
prized
seminal
tectonic
weighty

Examples of predominantly

predominantly
The traditional approach to stroke uses a predominantly physical rehabilitation model.
Much medical education still focuses predominantly on drug treatment, and commercial interests continue to fuel this to the detriment of non-drug treatments.
About two-thirds obtain data on the clinical breast examination, predominantly in computerized form.
Results indicate that thalamically evoked cortical responses are regulated predominantly by basket cells whose output is a key factor controlling excitability in the thalamocortical circuit.
However, despite this increasing awareness of visual evidence, its role continues to be predominantly illustrative.
Six species (8%) were defined as predominantly middle to upper canopy bats which represented the less diverse group.
Fifteen species were exclusively captured in the canopy, 10 were predominantly captured in the canopy, and 12 species were exclusively captured in ground nets.
Respondents were predominantly white (85%), married (62%), and highly educated (47% were college-educated or higher).
Most of the studies focused on health conditions or issues that pertain predominantly or exclusively to women.
The efficacy of atorvastatin was predominantly considered as advantageous or comparable, whereas the efficacy of losartan was considered disadvantageous to competing drugs.
They were regions of predominantly clearance area activity and both made important contributions to early period clearance.
In the visible-aper ture condition, pursuit was predominantly in the objectmotion direction, while in the invisible-aper ture condition, it was largely ver tical.
In the invisible-aper ture condition (open symbols), pursuit was predominantly ver tical, with little dependence on the objectmotion direction.
In contrast, recordings of inhibitory responses from dissociated cells appeared to originate predominantly in soma and dendritic regions.
Fractionalized agents, in contrast, are unable to do so and instead interact predominantly with those they are very close to and thus know very well.
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