disenfranchised
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The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
Her first album Horses was for the disenfranchised and the shunned.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Some voters in Zanzibar felt disenfranchised and said they would "leave that section blank" on the presidential ballot.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
Congress’s aim was to prevent minorities from being disenfranchised by the likes of poll taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
What he did, on a small scale, showed me how important it is to empower the dispossessed and the disenfranchised in the wake of oppression.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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