as in ban
an order that something not be done or used
management's veto of our suggestion about allowing casual dress on Fridays
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as in to dismiss
to reject by or as if by a vote
my husband quickly vetoed my suggestion that we adopt the stray dog
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Recent Examples of veto
Yun Li, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
By two 7-3 votes, commissioners overturned Garner’s vetoes.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
Newsom in 2019 vetoed a bill that would have imposed more restrictions on those agreements.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The national-security agreement gave the White House veto power over plant closures, offshore production shifts and other strategic decisions.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
By two 7-3 votes, commissioners overturned Garner’s vetoes.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
Newsom in 2019 vetoed a bill that would have imposed more restrictions on those agreements.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
Newsom in 2019 vetoed a bill that would have imposed more restrictions on those agreements.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for veto
Noun
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Walz and Democratic-Farmer-Labor legislators are calling for new policies including a state ban on semiautomatic assault-style weapons like the AR-15, which was used in the Annunciation shooting.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
20 Sep. 2025
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Four of the bills are in effect immediately, with the face covering ban to start in January.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Once the contestants are dismissed from the runway, the judges get more into it.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing his Miami Hurricanes football star teammate in 2006 want prosecutors sanctioned — or the murder case dismissed — after a key witness, who state prosecutors believed was dead, was found alive by an ESPN reporter.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Hatch Act prohibition against federal employees appearing in campaign settings has historically limited the kinds of events that could draw such high-ranking officials in the first place.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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In Las Vegas, Nevada Assembly member Tracy Brown-May worked to get an exception to the state's prohibition on traffic cameras, so that the Bus Patrol's technology could be added to school buses.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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At least three people were killed in Zaporizhzhia, the president said.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
22 Sep. 2025
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The statistics tellingly include the death toll in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a white supremacist plot that killed 168 people.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In the affidavit, a detective noted that Decker — who was divorced from his daughters’ mother — refused to sign a parenting plan that required him to seek mental health treatment and domestic violence anger management.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
25 Sep. 2025
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These include satellites apparently so secret that the US government refused to identify the agency that owns them.—
Benj Edwards,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Veto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veto. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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