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21 translations across 13 languages.
11 total sentences available.
It was almost 100 years ago that Alice Paul and her fellow suffragists were arrested for picketing outside the White House for the right to vote. Today, women make up more than half of the electorate. For the first time in history, a woman is a major party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Source: tatoeba (5215415)
By late May, he was already considered his party’s presumptive nominee.
Source: wiktionary
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Source: wiktionary
It's a beautiful point of presumptive murder, and there's been nane like it in the Justiciar Court since the case of Luckie Smith the howdie, that suffered in the year saxteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include absolute, acceptable, accounted as, adducible, admissible.
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