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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

On this latest visit he also managed a photo with the US Vice President Elect, JD Vance.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

After the Democrat’s victory became clear, The Times owner posted a message on social media: “Congratulations President-Elect Biden and Vice-President Elect Harris. Historic day. Now time for our nation to heal. #PresidentElect #AmericaDecides.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

In 2012 it was called Americans Elect, and in 2008 it was Unity08.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2024

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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