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as in suffrage
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
in the United States, women were granted the vote by the 19th Amendment in 1920
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as in ballot
a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election
dropped her vote into the ballot box
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3
as in say
the right to express a wish, choice, or opinion
he argued for a vote in the matter, since he was going to be affected by the final decision
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as in to propose
to set before the mind for consideration
I vote we quit working and go out for lunch
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Recent Examples of vote
John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Unsurprisingly, the Huskies (37-3) were a unanimous selection receiving all 31 first-place votes in the final poll of the year.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
Katie Akin, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025
Libby is suing Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and House of Representatives clerk Robert Hunt after the Democrat majority voted to censure her over a February social media post that identified a trans athlete who won a state pole vault competition.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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Noun
But the fallout from the U.K.’s vote, in 2016, to withdraw from the European Union was largely limited to its own inhabitants.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Unsurprisingly, the Huskies (37-3) were a unanimous selection receiving all 31 first-place votes in the final poll of the year.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
Our readers even voted it the state's best in our 2024 South's Best awards.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025
Libby is suing Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and House of Representatives clerk Robert Hunt after the Democrat majority voted to censure her over a February social media post that identified a trans athlete who won a state pole vault competition.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vote
Noun
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Josephine Holley’s activism in housing and women’s suffrage drove meaningful community change.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
31 Mar. 2025
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These forces helped spur democratic innovations that eventually spread: Western states led in the movements for women’s suffrage, the direct election of senators, and the use of the secret ballot.—
Made by History,
TIME,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Most states require the ballots be postmarked by or before Election Day.—
Ashley Lopez,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2025
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In unofficial results, Ciesla won re-election with 52.7% of the ballots, while challenger Josha Kaplan received 47.3%.—
Phil Rockrohr,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The decision to give voters a say on the sale came as part of a winding saga that included an effort from citizens to halt the sale through the petition process and an appeal by Brown to the Kansas Court of Appeals, which sent the matter back to a Johnson County judge for further proceedings.—
Taylor O’Connor,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2025
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The plum political prize, of course, will be deciding how congressional districts are drawn, perhaps giving this parochial court a major say in which party—and its preferred Speaker—gets to run the U.S. House.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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Alternately, Primack proposes that Chisholm ask for a one-time waiver from the NBA, gambling that the record sticker tag of the sale (which does not even include a stake in the Celtics' home arena, TD Garden) would probably dissuade the league's other owners from turning down such an agreement.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Nike shares fell 14%, while both Apple and Amazon lost 9% of their value.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2025
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While Intel's client business is returning to health, thanks in part to the upcoming 18A process node, Intel keeps losing share in the data center to AMD and has very little to show for its multi-billion-dollar investment in AI accelerators from its Habana Labs acquisition.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Parr, who died in 2015 of congestive heart failure at 85, in a previous interview suggested that if not for McCarthy stopping the path of that third round from Hinckley’s gun, Reagan’s wounds could have been much more serious.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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Several reports in Italian and international media suggested that Bezos' wedding organizers had already booked rooms at Venice's main luxury hotels and reserved for a few days in late June large numbers of gondolas and water taxis.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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North also took an interest in voice acting, nabbing roles in the animated shows Arabian Knights, Here Comes the Grump, The Pebbles and Bam-Bam Show and The Flintstones Comedy Hour.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Cornett appears to be the victim of a vicious and false internet rumor that resulted in her being overwhelmed with harassing texts and voice mails, barely able to leave her dorm room, having to switch to online classes, and getting her family house Swatted.—
Nicole Kraft,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Stewart, 34, and Angarano, 37, posed alongside Angarano's wife Maya Erskine at a special screening of the film Sacramento held at Los Angeles' Vista Theatre.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The distinctive risks posed by TikTok are mostly unrelated to its share structure.—
Gregory H. Shill,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Vote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vote. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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