ELECTING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

electing

verb

present participle of elect

as in selecting

to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities I've elected to study French as my foreign language

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Recent Examples of electing Speakers also recounted the resignation from Congress of Marjorie Taylor Greene in January, maintaining that the Republican Party is squashing its anti-Israel voices, while the Democratic Party is electing them. —

Joseph Strauss, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026 There remains no feasible route, under the Voting Rights Act or the Constitution, to challenging district lines that prevent Black voters from electing candidates of their choice. —

Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Foreign fans, like other tourists, have heard horror stories about ICE and are electing to stay home. —

Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026 But the party endorsement's success rate, specifically for electing Minnesota's governor, hasn't gone well. —

Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 3 June 2026 Just two years ago, CA-27 was one of the most competitive House races in the nation, and even before that, voters here had a history of going back and forth between electing a Democrat or a Republican. —

Linh Tat, Daily News, 3 June 2026 Lodi, once fully within the district, is split among three districts, and part of Stockton is shifted into the 13th District, the other district that supported Trump while electing a Democrat. —

Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026 Los Angeles City Council Los Angelenos will be electing who will represent them across swaths of the city. —

Paris Barraza, USA Today, 2 June 2026 Lower court judges agreed, ruling that the state must draw a map with two districts where Black voters have a realistic chance of electing their candidate of choice. —

Nina Totenberg, NPR, 2 June 2026

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The actor decorated the residence herself, tackling one room at a time and carefully selecting everything from the furnishings to the fabrics.

— Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
Then came the work; visiting distilleries, playing with mash bills, tasting endlessly and hand-selecting the whiskeys that would eventually go into their blends.

— Lela London, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026