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• Kavanaugh was in the majority 96% of the time, Roberts 95% of the time.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 July 2023
• Firearms were used in the majority of the deaths at 76 percent.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• After four years in the majority, Democrats lost the House once again.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
• And those two justices, Jon, were most in the majority this term 95 percent of the time.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2023
• Even in most of the states with no requirement on the books, AEDs are available in the majority of schools.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• Kohl served as chair of all three panels when Democrats were in the majority.
  — Todd Richmond, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Now their lawmakers are in the majority and want to be able to remake the rules.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• The two judges in the majority did not explain their reasons.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• But such dissenting opinions were in the majority in the weeks to come.
  — Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
• The ruling ensures, for now, full access to the drug, which is used in the majority of abortions in the United States.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 2 July 2024
• It is currently used in the majority of abortions in the US.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 June 2024
• The City Council’s 3-2 vote for the appeal with Jensen in the majority could open the door to a legal challenge of the decision.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
• And there aren't enough votes in the House either, now that Republicans are in the majority.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
• Despite the uptick, the report found only 1 in 3 people think they would be missed in the majority of their meetings.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• In some ways, the well-to-do class isn’t so different from the electorate, as polls have shown Mr. Trump leading in the majority of battleground states.
  — Rob Copeland, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• If the two parties split those two, that puts Republicans in the majority, by one.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
• Completing his 18th term, Roberts was in the majority in every one of the court’s most important cases, and chose to write the opinions in four of them.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• Autopsies found no heart defects in the majority of those who died.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• Fentanyl remains the biggest threat in Michigan and across the nation and is involved in the majority of drug overdose deaths.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
• With high scores in the majority of categories—many well over 9.0—the Google Pixel line of phones is almost impossible to beat for work phone of the year.
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2023
• The trio voted in the majority in nearly every one of the highest-profile cases.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• Both were passed by 3-2 votes, with Republican members of the election board in the majority.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Oct. 2024
• In a second vote that May, with McCarthy in the majority, Cheney was ousted from the leadership.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• But for the majority of people in the majority of situations, this is the one.
  — John Bradley, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023
• Seven months later, the Supreme Court issued its ruling, upholding the ban 5–4, with Thomas in the majority.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
• But Senate Democrats, who are in the majority, all but certainly won't include many of those same amendments.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 18 July 2023
• But Democrats are also only guaranteed a few more months in the majority.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Other judges gave a different reason, but that was in the majority.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 26 July 2023
• Kavanaugh was in the majority in 96% of this term’s decisions, more than any other justice.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• The Supreme Court divided 5-4 in halting the district court order that struck down the measure, with Roberts and Barrett joining the three liberal justices in the majority.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024