as in selecting
to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
I've elected to study French as my foreign language
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Recent Examples of electing
There’s struggling and missing weight, and then there’s missing weight without even trying and electing to use it as a tactic to gain an advantage against an opponent.
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
His candidacy has already received pushback from Cook and other GOP activists, who are focused on electing a speaker without the support of Democrats.
—Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Dec. 2024
Unless both parties commit to electing more women to Congress and governorships, progress toward gender parity in political representation will remain slow and uneven.
—Meredith Conroy, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
At this level too, Democrats are electing many more women than Republicans (around 1,600 to Republicans' 850, according to ABC News), though Republicans did elect more women this cycle than the last (their previous record was 815).
—Meredith Conroy, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
There is nothing good to say about electing a man who does not believe or understands the strength in the structure of a democracy our founding fathers established.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
But the state also has a bit of a maverick quality of electing Republicans to the governorship, and Republicans there saw some of the party’s largest improvements in November.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
Is this some warped sense of payback to America for not electing him to a second term in 2020?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
The mechanisms for publicly projecting a presidential winner in the media, officially counting the votes and formally electing a president are separate from a candidate conceding the race.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
Brian Mazique, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
His candidacy has already received pushback from Cook and other GOP activists, who are focused on electing a speaker without the support of Democrats.
—Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Dec. 2024
Unless both parties commit to electing more women to Congress and governorships, progress toward gender parity in political representation will remain slow and uneven.
—Meredith Conroy, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
At this level too, Democrats are electing many more women than Republicans (around 1,600 to Republicans' 850, according to ABC News), though Republicans did elect more women this cycle than the last (their previous record was 815).
—Meredith Conroy, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
There is nothing good to say about electing a man who does not believe or understands the strength in the structure of a democracy our founding fathers established.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
But the state also has a bit of a maverick quality of electing Republicans to the governorship, and Republicans there saw some of the party’s largest improvements in November.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
Is this some warped sense of payback to America for not electing him to a second term in 2020?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
The mechanisms for publicly projecting a presidential winner in the media, officially counting the votes and formally electing a president are separate from a candidate conceding the race.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Electing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/electing. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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