enfranchisement
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The implication isn't hard to suss out: if women use our enfranchisement to vote for our rights, then we're somehow "abusing" our right to vote.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2024
“We still started a conversation about teen enfranchisement, and I think that’s really valuable regardless of outcome,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022
But Francis also noted that the school system was “promoted by the governmental authorities at the time” as part of a policy of assimilation and enfranchisement, in which “local Catholic institutions had a part.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2022
But the amendment did represent the single largest act of enfranchisement in American history, and that fall, millions of American women cast their first ballots.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2020
I was submerged in the tide of the common life and felt the enfranchisement of the obscure.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
Vocabulary lists containing enfranchisement
Novel Study: Julius Caesar, Act 3
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Academic and Literary Vocabulary, Unit 2
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Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms, Unit 2
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