plebiscite
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Still, investors remain nervous about the fallout from Thursday’s plebiscite.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
In the daily plebiscite on America, this Ivy League historian votes “Yes, but.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
He listed off a string of achievements by the Greens under his leadership, including the party's pivotal role in the marriage equality plebiscite, the First Nations Voice to Parliament referendum, and advancing "world-leading climate legislation".
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
History is not a plebiscite in which 50% of the current population decides what’s true and important.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Doctors preach it, preachers expound it, legislators enact it, and the whole people make it a decree plebiscite.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
Formerly German territories awarded to Poland and Denmark had Danish- and Polish-speaking majorities who voted decisively in League of Nations plebiscites that they did not wish to remain with Germany.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
After plebiscites in 1983, one island chain became the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, thereby remaining part of the United States, adjacent to Guam, long a U.S. territory.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
The proposals also include mechanisms for citizen participation such as referendums and plebiscites, as well as the creation of a constitutional court and a new national electoral institute.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2021
There have been plebiscites, legislation, persuasion, and loud voices—in other words, democracy.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2013
“Write that down, Adah. If we don’t boil our water for thirty full minutes we’ll get plebiscites and what not.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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