as in to disqualify
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Recent Examples of disenfranchise
Tennessee disenfranchises a higher percentage of its voting-age population than any other state.
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Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2024
His followers, many of whom were lower-middle class pious Muslims disenfranchised by Turkey’s staunch secularist power circles at the time, made up a movement called Hizmet.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Read more: Overseas Votes Could Decide the Election Veterans organizations have decried the Republican challenges as potentially disenfranchising thousands of military service members deployed overseas.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
This system often disenfranchises clients and can leave families crippled with mountains of debt, and people responded in kind to news of Thompson’s death.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2024
His followers, many of whom were lower-middle class pious Muslims disenfranchised by Turkey’s staunch secularist power circles at the time, made up a movement called Hizmet.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Read more: Overseas Votes Could Decide the Election Veterans organizations have decried the Republican challenges as potentially disenfranchising thousands of military service members deployed overseas.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
This system often disenfranchises clients and can leave families crippled with mountains of debt, and people responded in kind to news of Thompson’s death.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenfranchise
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The ruling came on the same day that Trump's attorneys, in a court filing, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Willis disqualified from the case.—
Olivia Rubin,
ABC News,
17 Jan. 2025
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And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court's order declining to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.—
Ben Tarnoff,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2024
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The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.—
Cat Zakrzewski,
Washington Post,
12 July 2024
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The crash led to the death of 17-year-old Luciana Fernandez, permanently disabled Katerina Puig, now 19, and injured several other teens on his boat that day.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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Apple Intelligence began rolling out in October with iOS 18.1, giving users access to features such as Writing Tools, improved Siri, and the troubled notification summaries, which were later disabled to fix problems with inaccurate news alerts.—
Jibin Joseph,
PCMAG,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Disenfranchise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenfranchise. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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