as in vote
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
even as the world entered the 21st century, some nations still did not permit women's suffrage
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Recent Examples of suffrage
Bryan supported women’s suffrage, an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, and the right of unions to strike.
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
Scrapbooks, usually memorializing a family or group history, were popularized in America during the Civil War, and used during the suffrage and abolition movement to preserve newspaper clippings.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
By making suffrage central to the story of Wilson’s presidency, Cox reaches devastating conclusions.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2025
Even more white women, 53 percent, favored Mr. Trump in 2020, versus 46 percent for Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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The 2016 contest drew attention to the power of white female voters in a way not seen in the century since suffrage.
—Erica L. Green, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
Scrapbooks, usually memorializing a family or group history, were popularized in America during the Civil War, and used during the suffrage and abolition movement to preserve newspaper clippings.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
By making suffrage central to the story of Wilson’s presidency, Cox reaches devastating conclusions.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2025
Even more white women, 53 percent, favored Mr. Trump in 2020, versus 46 percent for Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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The 2016 contest drew attention to the power of white female voters in a way not seen in the century since suffrage.
—Erica L. Green, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffrage
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Some college presidents decide to weather the storm, hoping to placate enough constituents so that the motion fails for a lack of votes.—
Shaun Richman,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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Auburn had been the unanimous No. 1 for three straight weeks before that loss and remained at the top last week despite seeing nearly half of those first-place votes go primarily to Alabama, with a few to Florida and Tennessee.—
Aaron Beard,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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Nevertheless, in 2012, a ballot measure crafted by then-Mayor Jerry Sanders, to remove all new employees (except police) from the city pension system and to freeze salary increases for five years, was put to a vote.—
Chris Brewster,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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Those factors likely were why Manning didn’t join the exclusive group of 16 quarterbacks who have been inducted on their first ballot.—
Dan Duggan,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The 11-year-old skin care brand is best known for its Watermelon Glow franchise of products, which recently added a serum-blush hybrid.—
Noor Lobad,
WWD,
11 Feb. 2025
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Philadelphia took home the Lombardi trophy in 2018 for the first time in franchise history by toppling the New England Patriots 41-33.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Suffrage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffrage. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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