How to Use plebiscite in a Sentence

plebiscite

noun
  • The issue will be decided by plebiscite.
  • They are going to hold a plebiscite on the question of national independence.
  • These are issues that will be debated over the coming months in the runup to the plebiscite.
    — Time, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Nor are faith and religious belief the sort of things that are put up for a popular plebiscite.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
  • The ruling party is not going away, not by genuine plebiscite anyway.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Denmark had sat out the war, but managed to get the victors to support a plebiscite in Schleswig.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Six months in, his government held a plebiscite in which 97 percent chose statehood.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Corbyn has come out in favor of another plebiscite, but with reservations.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The struggle for rights goes back to the promise of a referendum, or plebiscite, which has never taken place.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Pennsylvania elects its judges in a process that resembles a cheap lottery more than a thoughtful plebiscite.
    — Jim Saksa, Slate Magazine, 19 May 2017
  • Holding the plebiscite in the middle of a pandemic has elicited public health concerns.
    — Daria Litvinova, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2020
  • And as with many Russian elections, the plebiscite was tarnished by a wave of fraud allegations.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • This means that no such plebiscite can be lawful unless the British government in London agrees to it.
    — Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Critics see the plebiscite as an effort to lock in bigoted legislation.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Constitutionally, Japan needs to hold a plebiscite this month.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Puerto Rico’s recent plebiscite should serve as a loud message for Congress.
    — George H. Laws Garcia, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024
  • But the Kremlin’s push for a high turnout in the plebiscite was an attempt to build a veneer of legitimacy.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • That process is in now in the works, with the new constitution to be voted on in a new plebiscite sometime in mid-2022.
    — Karol Suarez and Helen Regan, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Swiss voters backed a plan to raise pensions, the first time in the country’s history that social benefits got an increase via plebiscite.
    — Bastian Benrath, Fortune Europe, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Even if the fawning Congress produces a new constitution, a plebiscite will be needed to approve it.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • After the plebiscite, no matter who wins, coalitions on both sides have committed to make changes either to the new or the current constitution.
    — Daniela Mohor W., CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Uruguayans are not obliged to vote in the plebiscites, but voting in the congressional and presidential races is compulsory.
    — Nayara Batschke and Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Only twice before has a Canadian province called such a plebiscite, both times in French-speaking Quebec.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The arrangement provided a big boost for backers of the plebiscite because one-fifth of the region’s voters are registered in Barcelona.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The status of some of these areas, such as the city of Kirkuk, is supposed to be decided by plebiscite under Iraq’s constitution.
    — Balint Szlanko, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
  • The status of some of these areas, such as the city of Kirkuk, is supposed to be decided by plebiscite under Iraq's constitution.
    — Balint Szlanko, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • In a recent visit to Washington, Roselló pushed back against criticism about conducting the plebiscite at this time.
    — Patricia Guadalupe, NBC News, 10 June 2017
  • The new constitution was completed in 1980 and approved in a plebiscite that was widely viewed as fraudulent.
    — Camila Osorio, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2019
  • This Sunday, this assembly has its first official session, kicking off a process that should last up to a year and produce a text that will be ratified through a new plebiscite.
    — Daniela Mohor W., CNN, 4 July 2021
  • Vote counts show that a plebiscite on the question passed overwhelmingly on Sunday, winning about 95 percent of the vote, though abstention was high.
    — Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018

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