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cast

[kast, kahst] / kæst, kɑst /










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He was the forgotten man, cast into a recurring nightmare of rehab and hope.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Elections can take days, and sometimes weeks, to be called in California because most voters cast their ballots by mail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

At that point only about half of the ballots expected to be cast had been counted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The intrepid folks who bother to cast a ballot in these first-round races are largely a group of engaged voters, and drawing conclusions from such a narrow minority is a losing game.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

It was enough to make a person feel no more than a speck, a scrap of flotsam or jetsam tossing in the waves, to be cast willy-nilly into such an unimaginable expanse.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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