garner votes
Frequency: 6.00.9 per million words
to collect votes, especially in an election
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- The candidate crisscrossed rural counties to garner votes from undecided farmers.
- She hopes to garner enough votes to win outright in the first round.
- Their reform message has garnered votes from both young and older citizens.
- Grassroots volunteers are phone-banking nightly to garner last-minute votes.
- If he had garnered more votes, the runoff would have been avoided.
- We are devising a digital strategy aimed at garnering votes among first-time voters.
- Her coalition managed to garner swing-district votes despite tough opposition.
- Can an independent realistically garner enough votes to cross the threshold?
- Promises of tax relief helped them garner crucial votes in the suburbs.
- In the end, the measure garnered just 49 percent of the vote, narrowly failing.