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 Four months after America celebrated 250 years of independence, voters are projected to make history again, electing Black governors in states that have never done so. — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026 After four decades without electing a Democrat to the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, voters Tuesday appeared to hand the party a majority. — Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026 The race tightened into a near dead heat despite Oregon not electing a Republican governor in more than four decades. — Spencer Kimball,garrett Downs,dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,justin Papp, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026 Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2026 In addition to increasing regulations on data centers, voters also backed anti-AI candidates, electing officials vowing crackdowns in key states building out the most data center capacity in the US. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 4 Nov. 2026 In Texas and California, Latino voters turned out in huge numbers, helping to make history in each state by electing one of their own as governor for the first time. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026 Dozens of states are electing governors Beyond Washington, 36 states are electing governors. — Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026 All 435 House seats plus 35 Senate seats will be on the ballot, and voters in 36 states will be electing governors. — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

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When voters vote, their motive for selecting a particular candidate cannot be questioned.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
Proposition 5 breaks up that process into two parts, prioritizing the voters’ right to oust an official before selecting a replacement.

— Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

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The proof of concept focuses on picking components from containers and arranging them in the correct order for subsequent assembly operations.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
These are the people that are out there in the hot sun, doing the hard work of picking our foods and making sure that (the food) comes to us, the consumers.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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