elected
Example Sentences
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Gates, a lifelong Republican, was first elected as Huntington Beach city attorney in 2014 and was reelected twice.
From Los Angeles Times
Barry Manners was originally elected as a Conservative in Thanet, but he left the party in May last year and sat as an independent until announcing he was joining Reform UK.
From BBC
Takaichi became Japan's fifth premier in as many years when she was elected, initially as the head of a minority government.
From Barron's
The Northern Powerhouse project was first proposed by former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne in 2014, while Boris Johnson was later elected on a "levelling up" agenda.
From BBC
After he was elected, he promised to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin and has pledged to make New York City the “the crypto capital of the globe.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
