vetoes 1 of 2

plural of veto

vetoes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of veto
as in dismisses
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 vetoes
Noun
But DeWine kept the program as one of his 67 budget vetoes. Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025 By two 7-3 votes, commissioners overturned Garner’s vetoes. Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025 But the grand jury vetoes appear to be a rebuke of those marching orders. Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025 Now that the process has been initiated, the Security Council must vote within 30 days on a resolution to continue Iran‘s sanctions relief, requiring at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, or France to pass. Reuters, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025 That’s, in part, because the Council would have to pull off an override on the Bally’s matter by early next week due to rules that set a tighter timeline for objecting to mayoral vetoes on land use matters. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
Yet an administrator vetoes the plan, and the meeting’s start is uncaffeinated. Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vetoes
Noun
  • As a sign of the effort’s feasibility, the statement points to similar international resolutions that established red lines in other dangerous arenas, like prohibitions on biological weapons or ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
  • State Representative Devin Carney, a Republican, led the bill's introduction, having noticed Connecticut stood apart from more than 30 states that already had similar prohibitions.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As for the third criticism—that the point system is gamification, trivializing death and destruction—Prickly dismisses it out of hand.
    Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The poem dismisses prevailing emphases on externals, stressing instead the formative powers of one’s inner being.
    Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Putin-era Russia, the takeover of NTV, and similar cases of state encroachment in the media, eventually led to a culture of self-censorship, in which outright bans or other repressive measures were relatively rare.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Kneecap have opposed both bans.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As plastic waste clogs rivers, kills marine life and threatens human health, many leaders of countries, communities and forward-looking companies are working on ways to stem the tide of plastic pollution.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement In the quest to lure out Iblis, Khalid kills Ka-young’s grandmother, who dies protecting Min-ji.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Mun-ju refuses to leave him.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Or, maybe someone who currently lives with you refuses to take ownership of perpetuating the mess downstairs.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Vetoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vetoes. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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