the vote

noun

: the legal right to vote
In 1920, American women won the vote.

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Robert Malone, the committee's vice chairman, characterized the vote to no longer universally recommend a birth dose vaccine as one that pitted individual rights against societal obligations. Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 5 Dec. 2025 The new poll, conducted between December 1 and 2, also found that New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had 13 percent of the vote and former Vice President Kamala Harris had 9 percent. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025 Some advisors strongly pushed back on the new guidance ahead of the vote. Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2025 This vaccine group faced the same questions at its last meeting in September and delayed the vote because the wording of the questions changed several times. Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 5 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the vote

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“The vote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20vote. Accessed 12 Dec. 2025.

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