outvote

Example Sentences

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They wouldn’t have been able to outvote the majority.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2022

Eventually, Lennon organizes a meeting with Klein and he, Starr and Harrison outvote McCartney, who does not want Klein to manage the group.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021

In turn, voting was done by estate, not by proportional representation, with the first and second estates generally joining together to outvote the third.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Madison argues that the nation would be able to deal with minoritarian factions—the majority can just outvote them.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2018

Each century had one vote; and as by the Servian arrangement the first class, though containing fewest voters, had nevertheless, owing to its highest assessment, most votes, it could by itself outvote the other classes.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.