as in to disqualify
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Recent Examples of disenfranchise
Read more: Overseas Votes Could Decide the Election Veterans organizations have decried the Republican challenges as potentially disenfranchising thousands of military service members deployed overseas.
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Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
This system often disenfranchises clients and can leave families crippled with mountains of debt, and people responded in kind to news of Thompson’s death.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
Since the time of the Ottoman Empire, many Shia communities had been disenfranchised, including in Lebanon.
—Sheikh Abbas Al-Jawhari, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
James has appeared estranged from his father and brother in recent years, and Lachlan Murdoch and his father sought different methods for disenfranchising the three other children.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
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Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
This system often disenfranchises clients and can leave families crippled with mountains of debt, and people responded in kind to news of Thompson’s death.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
Since the time of the Ottoman Empire, many Shia communities had been disenfranchised, including in Lebanon.
—Sheikh Abbas Al-Jawhari, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
James has appeared estranged from his father and brother in recent years, and Lachlan Murdoch and his father sought different methods for disenfranchising the three other children.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
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Democrats declined to mount any objection to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory despite warning four years ago that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol disqualified him from office.Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Jan. 2025
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The other side: Republicans, who gained an advantage after a judge disqualified an incoming Democrat for not living in his district, have pointed to past examples of the House electing a speaker with just 67 votes.Torey Van Oot, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
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The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
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California Drone crash disabled a firefighting plane.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Set up two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication on any account that allows it, and never disable it.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Disenfranchise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenfranchise. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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