How to Use referendum in a Sentence
referendum
noun- The issue was decided by referendum.
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The referendum on the latter passed by 66.4% of the vote.
—Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
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The referendum needs at least 50% of the electorate to cast a valid vote, to be deemed binding.
—Dorottya Rédai, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
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The stretch run of the season isn’t a referendum for Fields and his future.
—Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2021
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The increase in price is the result of a referendum held on Sunday.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
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But this referendum, which got 50.02% of the vote, is binding.
—Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2022
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The next step in the referendum process called for the state ballot board to determine the language that voters would see in the polling booth.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
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The Brexit referendum took place in 2016, where millions of Brits cast their vote on whether the country should stay or leave the EU.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
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The election was a referendum on Chile’s past four decades.
—Axel Kaiser, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
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Biden hopes to flip that script and win by turning the election into a referendum on Trump.
—Doyle McManus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
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The ball is kept off the ground again; the election actually shapes up as a referendum on Trump at this point.
—Sean Trende, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
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At that point, the next potential battle over the law could be a 2024 referendum.
—John McCormack, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
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The vote could be a referendum, of sorts, on the legacy of outgoing Mayor John Giles.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
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If approved, then the referendum question would be on the ballot in May 2023.
—Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2022
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Russia has been silent about any plans to hold a referendum in Kherson.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 5 May 2022
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As much as possible, Trump plans to cast the election as a referendum on Biden.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Sandu secured 42% of the first-round vote, held on the same day as a referendum on EU membership that passed by the thinnest of margins.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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The night before Kansans were set to vote on a historic statewide referendum last month, voters saw a lie about how to vote pop up on their phone.
—Kevin Collier, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2022
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In the lead-up to the referendum, the three judges presiding over the Little Rock District Court underscored the need for a new courthouse.
—Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
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The 2012 referendum was the first time the popular vote swung in statehood’s favor.
—CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
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The bill gives the city and county the latitude to impose a sales tax – but only if voters okayed it through a referendum.
—Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
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As a result, a statewide referendum must wait two more years, at least, until 2023.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
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There's also a referendum to lower the voting age from 20 to 18.
—Huizhong Wu, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
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In other words, the outcome in Weinstein's case isn’t a referendum on the current state of #MeToo.
—Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
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The referendum, which had a low turnout rate, didn’t settle the legal back-and-forth and internal power plays.
—Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
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The industry launched a referendum attempt to repeal the law and defund the council.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
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Which brings us to the third goal: making the 2024 election a choice between two flawed candidates, not a referendum on Biden’s first three years.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
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Brexit was the name given to a movement that inspired the electorate to vote to leave the European Union (EU) in a 2016 referendum.
—Ben Evansky, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2022
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The election will determine control of the court, but has also become a referendum on Trump’s first weeks in office — as well as one on Musk himself.
—Scott Bauer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
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The escalating violence led the head of the Provisional Electoral Council last week to acknowledge that a planned referendum on a new constitution, scheduled to take place in May, will not happen.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
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