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votes

  • plural of vote.
  • present tense form of vote (3rd person singular).

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Aditya Bhave, head of U.S. economic research at BofA Global Research, said in an interview that Warsh “would comfortably have enough votes on the committee to raise rates.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Tibbs, who votes Republican but is nonpartisan in his role, praised Figures' impact on the community.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Fans voted him into the starting lineup, with the most final-round votes of any AL outfielder.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

And even if he manages to scrape by in committee, Blanche can afford to lose only three Republican votes in the Senate.

From Slate Jul. 9, 2026

At the Democratic National Convention in 2016, 102-year-old Jerry Emmett of Prescott, Arizona, announced that the Arizona delegation was casting fifty-one of its eighty-five votes for Hillary Clinton for president.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling