as in suffrage
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election
the Territory of Wyoming granted women the franchise in 1869, a full 51 years before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in all elections
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See also: the Fifty Shades franchise. 2015-2018: Fifty Shades of Weird Press
Dakota Johnson signed on to play Anastasia Steele, the Bella Swan expy in E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, in 2013.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 May 2025
His 212 career wins are second in franchise history behind only Don Sutton’s 233 and his 2.50 ERA ranks third.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
The most promising Royals season in a generation placed the long-term future of the franchise at the plate, one out left in a World Series, game tying run 90 feet shy of home plate.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025
Now, with Tatum injured and the hopes of back-to-back championships gone, the franchise will enter a summer of uncertainty.
—The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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suffrage
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Proponents of Black suffrage rights fought hard to ensure that the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship and equal protection guarantees, enshrined in its first clause, were coupled with an apportionment penalty provision, its second clause.—
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Her father was an immigration lawyer in Vancouver, which was normal enough -- but her mother was a journalist and suffrage advocate, which was much less typical (Helen MacGill would later become the first woman appointed as a judge in British Columbia).—
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“Franchise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/franchise. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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