How to Use supermajority in a Sentence

supermajority

noun

• The kind of Supreme Court supermajority that could take down Roe.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• The bump stocks case marked the latest gun case to come before the high court, which is controlled by a right-wing supermajority.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• And this is in a state with a supermajority of Democrats in control of all the branches of government.
  — Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• To break the Republican supermajority, Democrats would have to pick up at least eight seats in the House.
  — Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 15 Nov. 2023
• Democrats have held a supermajority in both chambers for the past four years.
  — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2022
• Most bills need a supermajority of 60 votes in the Senate to reach the floor for a vote and ultimately pass the chamber.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• The bill complicates the school board election process, Randolph said, and the supermajority shouldn’t push the bill through.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
• The plan needed a five-vote supermajority to pass, as is the case is most non-budgetary issues.
  — al, 2 Nov. 2021
• It’s a Democratic wish list that, if Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate, maybe could be on the table.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021
• But this is the first time since the Roe decision that conservatives have a 6 to 3 supermajority on the court.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2021
• And that will require a two-thirds vote of each house — a high hurdle even though Democrats hold supermajority control.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• One unknown is whether the law requires a supermajority vote on the council, which could require five out of six votes.
  — al, 21 Sep. 2021
• In the Senate, Democrats fell well short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to convict Trump and remove him from office.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• As in years past, the list mostly reflects the interests of the Democrats who hold a supermajority of seats in both the state Senate and Assembly.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• This supermajority is needed to end debate on bill and proceed to a vote on the measure.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2022
• That race and the one in the First Middlesex will have no effect on which party controls power in the House, where Democrats have long held a supermajority.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, Democrats emerged from Election Day far from the two-thirds supermajority needed in both chambers to override a veto.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• The goal of my campaign was to sync our politics back up with that supermajority.
  — Danielle Allen, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• The Assembly would then need a supermajority of at least 8 votes to override the veto.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2021
• With a supermajority, the hacker was able to have the Beanstalk tokens transferred to their own crypto wallet.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The law requires a seven-eighths supermajority of the Legislature to pass any amendments to the law.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• This isn't the first time the Supreme Court has had a conservative supermajority, but overturning Roe is a huge move.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2022
• The choice of McGuire as his running mate is no doubt an olive branch to the supermajority red legislature, which has more power than the governor does to change the law.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2024
• Nine Republicans joined Democrats in the House supermajority to pass the measure in an 81-30 vote.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• Both measures failed to get the 60% supermajority vote needed to pass.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
• As in years past, the list mostly reflects the politics and interests of the Democrats who hold a supermajority of seats in the state Assembly and Senate.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
• Democrats maintain a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature and have held every statewide office for the last decade and a half.
  — Hannah Wileystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• The Senate’s 29-10 vote passing the bill this month cleared the supermajority threshold that would be needed for a veto override.
  — Jonathan Shorman and, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
• In the last few years, reckless politicians with a supermajority in the State House have increased the budget by nearly a third, never lacking in their creativity in how to spend taxpayer money.
  — John Teichert, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2025
• Progressives aren’t going to give up on this issue, although polling shows that a supermajority of Americans want women’s athletics to be women-only.
  — The Editors, National Review, 7 Feb. 2025