precinct
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Not surprisingly, Pratt did well in the Pacific Palisades, where his home burned down in the 2025 fire, garnering 60% in one precinct.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
In one Sun Valley precinct, the two each took 151 votes compared with Raman’s 80.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
As he emerges through the doorway into the precinct outside, his friends laugh.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Les Quennevais is meant to be the island's second urban centre, but there has long been a feeling that the parade and precinct has been neglected with many shops left empty.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
“I waitin till I can ring up the precinct about you. Darlene don wanna be a B-drinker. She force to be a B-drinker. She say she wanna go in showbiz.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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