elect
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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
Erin, who became a Lighthouse Associate Elect at the same time as Jeff, tells a similar story.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2023
But the Columbia Missourian did it for him on May 14, 1980, with a front-page story headlined: “Bunceton Residents Elect Mayor Who Is a Respected Homosexual.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022
“Why not? Elect a woman and maybe things change.”
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2022
There was too much singing, and she didn’t see how even the Elect could survive for very long the celestial laziness which was promised.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing elect
Election Lingo
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Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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