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constituency

[kuhn-stich-oo-uhn-see] / kənˈstɪtʃ u ən si /


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Asked about her colleagues' efforts to secure some of the money, Shah said: "Is it the way I would have tried to get money for my constituency? No, it isn't."

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Johnson, though, still believed there was a constituency of Democrats who couldn’t stomach either choice.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

“We’ll see if that lack of constituency connection will have an impact on the results.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“He knows how to read his constituency better than anyone else,” said Tamar Hermann, a pollster and senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Malcolm’s other constituency lay just over the bridge outside the tavern, in the gray stone buildings set among green fields and neat orchards and kitchen gardens of the Priory of St. Rosamund.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

She stressed it was every MP's own "choice and prerogative" to champion particular projects in their own constituencies with money earmarked specifically for those constituencies.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

“A lot of those constituencies didn’t support him until he looked inevitable,” said Republican strategist Rob Stutzman, an alumnus of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

As my colleague Aymann Ismail has reported, El-Sayed has struggled to convince some core Democratic constituencies, including Black Michiganders, that he will improve their lives.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

They aren’t up nights pondering the claims of the silent constituencies of the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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