overwhelmingly
adverb
over·whelm·ing·ly
ˌō-vər-ˈ(h)wel-miŋ-lē 
1
a
: to an overwhelming extent
an overwhelmingly powerful army
b
: extremely
overwhelmingly mediocre
2
: mostly by far
the workers were overwhelmingly female
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Then then conservative-leaning Supreme Court defanged the Voting Rights Act, which has created a sprint in the South that could wipe out almost a third of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is overwhelmingly Democratic.
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Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 16 May 2026
Large language models are trained overwhelmingly on English-language data, which means prompts in other languages consume more tokens for the same output.
—David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
For Swatch however, the ramifications are overwhelmingly advantageous.
—Clara Ludmir, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Football fans are nothing if not overwhelmingly fickle.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
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Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 16 May 2026
Large language models are trained overwhelmingly on English-language data, which means prompts in other languages consume more tokens for the same output.
—David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
For Swatch however, the ramifications are overwhelmingly advantageous.
—Clara Ludmir, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Football fans are nothing if not overwhelmingly fickle.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
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“Overwhelmingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overwhelmingly. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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