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

The two privileged estates could always outvote the Third Estate.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

When the League could outvote Kelly, then—another policy, still of calmness and peace and civilization, but not so meek.

From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham