as in to disqualify
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Recent Examples of disenfranchise
Leger Fernández pointed to a strict voter identification bill, known as the SAVE America Act, that Democrats have warned would disenfranchise tens of millions of eligible voters, including women who have changed their last names after getting married.
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Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
But Congress would need to repeal a 1967 law that mandates single-member districts, written to help implement the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Southern states that had used a bloc system to disenfranchise Black voters.
—Jennifer Lynn McCoy, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
Democrats, meanwhile, have decried the proposal as an attack on voting rights and an attempt to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
—Sophie Brams, The Hill, 4 Feb. 2026
The National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors warned the Postmaster General that problems with the postal service might disenfranchise voters in the upcoming election.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
But Congress would need to repeal a 1967 law that mandates single-member districts, written to help implement the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Southern states that had used a bloc system to disenfranchise Black voters.
—Jennifer Lynn McCoy, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
Democrats, meanwhile, have decried the proposal as an attack on voting rights and an attempt to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
—Sophie Brams, The Hill, 4 Feb. 2026
The National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors warned the Postmaster General that problems with the postal service might disenfranchise voters in the upcoming election.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenfranchise
Verb
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Will age disqualify him in Cincinnati?—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Arrests in all of the cases may have shown up on rap sheets visible to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, but without a conviction, that information couldn’t have been used by employers to disqualify an applicant, at least not in the past eight years.—
Jason Henry,
Daily News,
1 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The United States should use its economic weapons not only to disempower the junta but also to support its replacement.—
Dan Swift,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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In other words, real care is not supposed to disempower.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Knuckling under the pressure to do something about this, Congress eventually passed a law that essentially denied such benefits to anyone whose only disabling condition was drug addiction or alcoholism.—
Tom Margenau,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Mar. 2026
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After multiple attempts to shut down and restart the main timing system, power was cut to the scoreboard and the horn was disabled.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Disenfranchise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenfranchise. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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