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to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
I've elected to study French as my foreign language
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Recent Examples of elected
Nigel Farage was elected to Parliament at the eighth time of trying in July.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
The effort has spread so widely that one letter is even going to Sarah McBride, the Democratic politician from Delaware who recently made history by becoming the first-ever openly transgender person to be elected to Congress.
—Hilary Shenfeld, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
November Richmond elected a new mayor and new City Council and School Board members, our airport received a grant to consolidate its two TSA screening areas into one, and there was health department chaos.
—Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
That claim, prosecutors wrote in the Thursday letter, is untrue because the investigation began in 2021 — before Adams was elected mayor and around a year before Adams started being outspoken about the migrant crisis.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Musk is everywhere, often glued to the elbow of the man who actually was elected president.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Uttar Pradesh elected Yogi Adityanath, a monk and a Hindu nationalist from the Bharatiya Janata Party, as its new chief minister, and the prospect of a shrine to English may have dimmed further.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Here's some battleground state banter Republican Kevin Payne has spent the last eight years in the Arizona House of Representatives and was recently elected to the Senate.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
Still, there is an appreciation for the two-way opportunity, one that opened up in the offseason when the Heat elected not to re-up with Alondes Williams and Cole Swider on their two-way contracts, those two now on such deals with the Detroit Pistons.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
The effort has spread so widely that one letter is even going to Sarah McBride, the Democratic politician from Delaware who recently made history by becoming the first-ever openly transgender person to be elected to Congress.
—Hilary Shenfeld, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
November Richmond elected a new mayor and new City Council and School Board members, our airport received a grant to consolidate its two TSA screening areas into one, and there was health department chaos.
—Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
That claim, prosecutors wrote in the Thursday letter, is untrue because the investigation began in 2021 — before Adams was elected mayor and around a year before Adams started being outspoken about the migrant crisis.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Musk is everywhere, often glued to the elbow of the man who actually was elected president.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Uttar Pradesh elected Yogi Adityanath, a monk and a Hindu nationalist from the Bharatiya Janata Party, as its new chief minister, and the prospect of a shrine to English may have dimmed further.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Here's some battleground state banter Republican Kevin Payne has spent the last eight years in the Arizona House of Representatives and was recently elected to the Senate.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
Still, there is an appreciation for the two-way opportunity, one that opened up in the offseason when the Heat elected not to re-up with Alondes Williams and Cole Swider on their two-way contracts, those two now on such deals with the Detroit Pistons.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Elected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elected. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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