elected
Example Sentences
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I’m not Joanna Stern, who wants singing cars and robot dishwashers and still elected to rat out the Journal’s AI vending machine for selling fine wine and delicious live fish.
The commission wrote in its letter that it had "not identified any omissions of expenditure that ought to have been declared" in Farage's campaign to be elected in his Clacton constituency.
From BBC
Experts, including two elected South Carolina coroners, said Spivey’s body appeared to have been illegally mishandled.
In 1966, Reagan was elected governor by a margin of nearly 1 million votes and Cannon found himself “writing about Ronald Reagan every day.”
From Los Angeles Times
“But because he’s an elected official, the victims still have to see him wield power. That’s the injustice here.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
