as in to disqualify
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Recent Examples of disenfranchise
The new map disenfranchises 19% of Black adults and 12% of Latino adults in Tarrant County, while disenfranchising 5% of white adults, the lawsuit alleges.
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Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2025
Voting rights advocates had said the state law could disenfranchise many voters of color.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Not only that: more than 1 million independent voters in New York City are effectively disenfranchised because they are barred from participating in the elections that matter most.
—John Avlon, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
On Friday, four Republican members of the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order attempting to disenfranchise more than 5,000 of the state’s voters.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 14 Apr. 2025
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Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2025
Voting rights advocates had said the state law could disenfranchise many voters of color.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Not only that: more than 1 million independent voters in New York City are effectively disenfranchised because they are barred from participating in the elections that matter most.
—John Avlon, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
On Friday, four Republican members of the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order attempting to disenfranchise more than 5,000 of the state’s voters.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenfranchise
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Rather than disqualifying Harvard students from receiving visas, as other federal agencies have attempted to do, the presidential order marked the first time Trump has stepped in directly, using his executive powers to limit Harvard.—
Elissa Nadworny,
NPR,
16 June 2025
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After Bolivia’s electoral tribunal disqualified former President Evo Morales, a leftist political titan who still wields influence in the country’s tropical heartland, from running in the August presidential election, his loyalists took to the streets this month to vent their outrage.—
Paola Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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The unequal distribution of unpaid work disempowers individual women, hurts economies, and will slow down the post-COVID-19 recovery.—
Melinda Gates,
Foreign Affairs,
15 July 2020
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There's a lot of talk in the AI safety world about the degree to which these systems are likely to do things like power-seeking, to be deceptive, to seek to disempower humans and escape their control.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
27 Apr. 2025
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Pornhub disabled its website in Texas last year because of the state law.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 June 2025
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As revealed in a recent episode of 60 Minutes, in one case the agency sent a clawback letter to a 32-year-old man, living on Social Security and disabled by cerebral palsy.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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“Disenfranchise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenfranchise. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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