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plebiscite

[pleb-uh-sahyt, -sit] / ˈplɛb əˌsaɪt, -sɪt /




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But a successful legal challenge earlier this month by First Nations groups in the province halted the process of verifying petition signatures and placed the plebiscite in limbo.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Still, investors remain nervous about the fallout from Thursday’s plebiscite.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

In the daily plebiscite on America, this Ivy League historian votes “Yes, but.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

History is not a plebiscite in which 50% of the current population decides what’s true and important.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Doctors preach it, preachers expound it, legislators enact it, and the whole people make it a decree plebiscite.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various




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