Definitions
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disenfranchise .
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Examples
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And besides, relying on a popular vote argument "disenfranchises" (to use a Clintonian term appropriately, for a change) all the participants in all the caucus states, the results from which are not reflected in any of the popular vote totals.
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We wonder if someone will start arguing for a national primary on the ground that the current system "disenfranchises" the easily confused.
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"disenfranchises" them, he says, calling for patients to be better educated about their options.
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"disenfranchises" them, he says, calling for patients to be better educated about their options.
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"disenfranchises" them, he says, calling for patients to be better educated about their options.
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Yet somehow no other country similarly disenfranchises residents of its capital.
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"The Minnesota tradition in law [is] to enfranchise people, and their decision disenfranchises many Minnesotans whose votes have been wrongly rejected," said Coleman legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg.
Unappealing 2009
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She added that the majority's decision disenfranchises not just this particular candidate, but every voter in Chicago who would consider voting for him.
Big Bump in Rahm's Road to City Hall Douglas Belkin 2011
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It disenfranchises and oppressed most of those that are supposedly part of the rescue.
Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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Linking human trafficking and torture victims to consenting adult sex work and focusing attention on the first to disenfranchise the second disenfranchises both.
Survivors, trafficking and Piggybacking politics « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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