How to Use supermajority in a Sentence

supermajority

noun

• The kind of Supreme Court supermajority that could take down Roe.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• The bump stocks case marked the latest gun case to come before the high court, which is controlled by a right-wing supermajority.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• To break the Republican supermajority, Democrats would have to pick up at least eight seats in the House.
  — Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 15 Nov. 2023
• Democrats have held a supermajority in both chambers for the past four years.
  — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2022
• And that will require a two-thirds vote of each house — a high hurdle even though Democrats hold supermajority control.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• In the Senate, Democrats fell well short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to convict Trump and remove him from office.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• This supermajority is needed to end debate on bill and proceed to a vote on the measure.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2022
• That race and the one in the First Middlesex will have no effect on which party controls power in the House, where Democrats have long held a supermajority.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, Democrats emerged from Election Day far from the two-thirds supermajority needed in both chambers to override a veto.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• The goal of my campaign was to sync our politics back up with that supermajority.
  — Danielle Allen, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• With a supermajority, the hacker was able to have the Beanstalk tokens transferred to their own crypto wallet.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The law requires a seven-eighths supermajority of the Legislature to pass any amendments to the law.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• This isn't the first time the Supreme Court has had a conservative supermajority, but overturning Roe is a huge move.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2022
• The choice of McGuire as his running mate is no doubt an olive branch to the supermajority red legislature, which has more power than the governor does to change the law.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2024
• Nine Republicans joined Democrats in the House supermajority to pass the measure in an 81-30 vote.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• As in years past, the list mostly reflects the politics and interests of the Democrats who hold a supermajority of seats in the state Assembly and Senate.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
• Democrats maintain a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature and have held every statewide office for the last decade and a half.
  — Hannah Wileystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• With nine votes the city council would have a veto-proof supermajority of the council’s 13 members, Bender said.
  — Peter Nickeas, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022
• The GOP holds all major state offices and has a supermajority in both chambers of the state Legislature.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Whether that means a majority of the conference, or a two-thirds or three-fourths supermajority, the bulk of the conference should not be at the mercy of a small number of dissenters.
  — The Editors, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• The filibuster, of course, is the Senate rule that prevents most bills from passing without a supermajority of 60 votes.
  — Thomas Koenig, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
• Changing the rule required a two-thirds’ supermajority of members to vote in favor.
  — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• That’s a tough sell for Democrats in a Republican supermajority at the Statehouse.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• The proposal would require future amendments to get a 60% supermajority in a statewide vote in order to pass.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 17 July 2023
• New York’s governor and Democratic supermajority can’t seem to agree on taxing the rich a little bit more to help deal with climate change.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• The decision to place the Encinitas taxing measure on the Nov. 8 ballot will require a supermajority, or 4/5ths of the council in favor.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2022
• But, alas, that will not happen — most likely for as long as this Court’s 6-3 Republican supermajority gets to decide how the law works.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 June 2024
• However, if the goal is to put something in place after Year 12, that would most likely only need a supermajority.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• State of play: Republicans hold a supermajority in both the House and Senate and the party is expected to maintain that control.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
• The reform will next be voted on in the Senate, where its approval is likely due to López Obrador’s ruling coalition being one senator short of a supermajority.
  — David Shortell, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024