precinct
Example Sentences
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This process created a rare island of higher ground in what is now the east/south-east section of the temple precinct.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
Sunday in front of 156 West 38 St. in the Midtown South precinct.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
But Ms. Machado led the opposition strategy to get out the vote and capture images of voter tally-sheets at each precinct at the end of the day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
It reflected an age when urban machine politicians—Republicans and Democrats—would send party loyalists from one polling station to another, pretending to be a voter in each precinct.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2025
“I’ll call my parents. Or go to a police station, or something. I’m sure there’s a poster of my face in every precinct in Britain by now, knowing my dad.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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