militate
Example Sentences
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Before Callais, courts used a disparate-impact analysis that militated toward concentrating minority voters so that they could elect representatives based on their share of the population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026
Though they recognized the antebellum nation as configured in such a way that militated against their social advancement, Hosea Easton, for example, claimed that Black people were “constitutionally Americans.”
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
In the first years of podcasts, a decade or so ago, technological limitations militated against their widespread adoption: they had to be laboriously transferred from a computer to an MP3 player or an iPod.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
That overseas service, as well as the nation’s continuing financial involvement in postwar reconstruction and reparations militated against isolationism and underlay the international engagement that Henry Luce in 1941 would label “the American Century.”
From Time • Nov. 9, 2015
But several things militated against my starting to work.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing militate
Fighting Words: Belli and Milit
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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bel and milit
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