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as in vote
a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election
we collected all of the ballots from the students voting for class president
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as in suffrage
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
believes that even convicted felons should have the ballot
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Recent Examples of ballot
Current New York City Mayor Eric Adams is running as an independent on the November ballot.
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Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 30 June 2025
The item needs to come back to the commission for final approval, at which point it would be sent to voters on the November ballot — now in a special election since the main election has been postponed.
—Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
Under the new scheme, Australia will accept 280 visa winners from a random ballot between July and January 2026.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 27 June 2025
As reported by Gothamist this week, Adams’ campaign paid Pool some $175,000 this spring to do petitioning work to secure an independent line for the mayor on November’s general election ballot.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
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Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 30 June 2025
The item needs to come back to the commission for final approval, at which point it would be sent to voters on the November ballot — now in a special election since the main election has been postponed.
—Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
Under the new scheme, Australia will accept 280 visa winners from a random ballot between July and January 2026.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 27 June 2025
As reported by Gothamist this week, Adams’ campaign paid Pool some $175,000 this spring to do petitioning work to secure an independent line for the mayor on November’s general election ballot.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballot
Noun
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The tax and domestic policy bill nearing a vote by Senate Republicans includes hundreds of provisions, including extended and expanded tax cuts and significant cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs.—
Alicia Parlapiano,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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The issue, though, is that the liberals do not have enough votes to override Lamont’s vetoes.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
30 June 2025
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But Fellowes refuses to treat it as a heel turn, even clumsily transforming Bertha into a proto-feminist who picks a fight about female suffrage at a dinner party and risks her own social status to advocate for divorced women.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
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Scholars point to the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 as being the start of the women’s suffrage movement, but women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 June 2025
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“Ballot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballot. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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