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precincts

/ ˈpriːsɪŋkts /

plural noun

  1. the surrounding region or area

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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As he sat down to face questions from the feds, his sentences traveled winding paths through vague precincts to fog-filled destinations.

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Ninety-two percent of the precincts that went for Trump also voted “Yes” on 36 and for Hochman for district attorney.

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Harris still held strongholds in the neighborhood’s two other precincts, which bleed into Beverly Hills and Carthay Square, and tallied a total of 7,321 votes across the five.

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Voters here prefer to vote in person at their neighborhood polling precincts and some are still getting used to receiving a ballot in the mail, Valadez said.

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The only concrete accusation so far is against Russian actors for calling in fake bomb scares to five Georgia precincts.

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