- a variation of yay.
yea
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Congress is crying out for a dedicated White House ambassador—someone who can be trusted to speak for the president, to yea or nay ideas, to shuttle proposals, to wrangle rebels in line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The shares are up around 20% this yea, while the world’s largest crypto is up 9.7% in 2026.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
“I was like, yea, I think you should go for guitar, dude,” says Alex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Born in 1970, he grew up in poverty as one of eight children in China's north-eastern Shandong Province, according to a profile published in The New Yorker last yea, externalr.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024
It may be some Ages hence, a voyage to the Southern unknown Tracts, yea possibly the Moon, will not be more strange then one to America.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"Even 80 yeas after the war, Okinawa where we live is a place that is so unnerving," 48-year-old mother of two boys Hitomi Miyagi told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Feijoo will need the support of 176 lawmakers out of the lower house's 350 deputies to clinch the premiership, or, failing that, a simple majority of more yeas than nays in a second vote.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2023
With $1.5 billion in ticket sales, “Top Gun: Maverick” helped bring moviegoers — especially older, more hesitant moviegoers — back to theaters after two-plus yeas of pandemic.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Sitting in the gallery that overlooks the Senate floor, lobbyists pulled out ballpoint pens to track the yeas and nays.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2022
On the motion to postpone till the following day the vote was, yeas 21, nays 22.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
