outvote

Example Sentences

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They wouldn’t have been able to outvote the majority.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2022

Eventually, Lennon organizes a meeting with Klein and he, Starr and Harrison outvote McCartney, who does not want Klein to manage the group.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021

Madison argues that the nation would be able to deal with minoritarian factions—the majority can just outvote them.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2018

While some of Jefferson’s supporters had once been antifederalists, they had accepted the Constitution’s framework, and determined not to overthrow their opponents but to outvote them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

By 1857 the free-state voters had become so numerous that it was no longer possible to outvote them by bringing men from Missouri, and they chose a free-state legislature.

From A Short History of the United States by Channing, Edward