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In other words, they're arguing that the term officer of the United States, electively as an entity, means more than the sum of its parts.”

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2024

The MPs' report - Strengthening Home Education - says the government does not collect national figures for how many children are electively home-educated and parents do not have to register the fact with councils.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2021

Jurors can electively identify themselves to the public and speak about their experience.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021

And if patients electively choose to visit a hospital or clinic that is out of network, insurers are fully within their right to charge higher cost-sharing for that care.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2019

That poem is a creation so pure and simple in the higher imagination, as to support the contention that the author was electively related to Fra Angelico.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir