"preponderant" meaning in English

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          "text": "The judge gave preponderant weight to the physical evidence.",
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          "text": "Women continue to play a preponderant role in caregiving.",
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          "ref": "1666, Robert Boyle, Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Oxford: Richard Davis, Paradox I, page 28",
          "text": "[…] if the Oyle and Water being in an Aequilibrium, you gently lift up the Pipe, […] the depth of the water being lessend, the oyle in the Pipe will grow praeponderant, and therefore will fall out in Drops or Globuls, which by the greater Specifick Gravity of the water, will be buoy’d up to the Top of the Liquor, and there flote:",
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          "ref": "1767, George Canning, “Anti-Lucretius”, in Poems, London: for the author, page 281",
          "text": "Behold the balanc’d Scales suspended stand,\nNeither a jot inclin’d to either hand:\nBut place the smallest grain of weight in one,\nStraight the fraternal equipoise is gone;\nThe loaded scale, preponderant, downward flies,\nDrags down the chain, and makes it’s [sic] partner rise.",
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          "text": "For the present, however, the Swedes were the preponderant party in the neighbourhood; they had fortified the chateau of Falkenberg, and made it a very strong military post;",
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          "ref": "1936, Olaf Stapledon, chapter 20, in Odd John, New York: Galaxy Publishing, page 136",
          "text": "The place was much like any ordinary lab., crowded with jars, test-tubes, retorts and so on. It evidently served for work on both the physical and the biological sciences, but the biological was preponderant.",
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