as in to disqualify
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Recent Examples of disenfranchise
Read more: Overseas Votes Could Decide the Election Veterans organizations have decried the Republican challenges as potentially disenfranchising thousands of military service members deployed overseas.
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Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
This system often disenfranchises clients and can leave families crippled with mountains of debt, and people responded in kind to news of Thompson’s death.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
Since the time of the Ottoman Empire, many Shia communities had been disenfranchised, including in Lebanon.
—Sheikh Abbas Al-Jawhari, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
James has appeared estranged from his father and brother in recent years, and Lachlan Murdoch and his father sought different methods for disenfranchising the three other children.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
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Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
This system often disenfranchises clients and can leave families crippled with mountains of debt, and people responded in kind to news of Thompson’s death.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
Since the time of the Ottoman Empire, many Shia communities had been disenfranchised, including in Lebanon.
—Sheikh Abbas Al-Jawhari, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
James has appeared estranged from his father and brother in recent years, and Lachlan Murdoch and his father sought different methods for disenfranchising the three other children.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenfranchise
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And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court's order declining to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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The ruling came on the same day that Trump's attorneys, in a court filing, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Willis disqualified from the case.Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2025
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Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
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The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
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California Drone crash disabled a firefighting plane.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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The carmaker said that in a small number of affected vehicles a reverse current may occur during startup, potentially causing a short circuit in the computer board and disabling the rearview cameras.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Disenfranchise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenfranchise. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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