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[ih-lekt] / ɪˈlɛkt /


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Appeared in the December 15, 2025, print edition as 'Chile Set to Elect Right-Wing Leader'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

It was also paid $222,000 by Elect California to help with the reelection campaign of Mitch O’Farrell among other clients.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

Erin, who became a Lighthouse Associate Elect at the same time as Jeff, tells a similar story.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2023

“Why not? Elect a woman and maybe things change.”

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2022

His father had provided an illustration of the Ptolemaic cosmos in which the outermost sphere was labelled ‘Here the learned do appoint the habitacle of God and the Elect.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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