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

In turn, voting was done by estate, not by proportional representation, with the first and second estates generally joining together to outvote the third.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2018

I hope you will be stirring for the Parliament, for I will not be reconciled to you if you let Prestonall outvote you.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Thomson, Mrs.