as in vote
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
even as the world entered the 21st century, some nations still did not permit women's suffrage
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Recent Examples of suffrage
Stimson believed the parallel crusades for temperance and women’s suffrage would remove power from the saloons and restore it to the family home.
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Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Several generations advocated for women's suffrage before the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Aug. 2024
Alice Paul, a New Jersey native, Quaker and women's suffrage and rights activist, drafted the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, three years after women were granted the right to vote − a fight that took more than 70 years.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Flashback: Ohioans elected women state lawmakers for the first time in 1922, two years after the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage was ratified.
—Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
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Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Several generations advocated for women's suffrage before the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Aug. 2024
Alice Paul, a New Jersey native, Quaker and women's suffrage and rights activist, drafted the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, three years after women were granted the right to vote − a fight that took more than 70 years.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Flashback: Ohioans elected women state lawmakers for the first time in 1922, two years after the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage was ratified.
—Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffrage
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But the 6-2 vote by the Senate Education, Energy and the Environment Committee merely sends the Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act back to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, which needs to agree to the latest changes before sending the bill to the full Senate.—
William J. Ford,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Mar. 2025
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That's close to how the state voted in November, when 52.4 percent of the state's votes went to Harris, and 45.5 percent backed Trump.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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After a village Electoral Board ruling knocked Tinley Together off the ballot, a Cook County Circuit Court judge, in early January, reversed that ruling.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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And along with Utah, Republican lawmakers in Kansas on Tuesday limited mail ballot return windows.—
Ashley Lopez,
NPR,
27 Mar. 2025
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Phoenix would go on to lose this game, and lose the finals as well, but despite the heartbreaking loss things were still looking up for the franchise.—
Mikai Bruce,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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While there have been no announcements yet about where the franchise will go next, the concept of a female Bond has been floated for more than a half-century.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Suffrage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffrage. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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