How to Use referendum in a Sentence

referendum

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  • The issue was decided by referendum.
  • The referendum on the latter passed by 66.4% of the vote.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The increase in price is the result of a referendum held on Sunday.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The next step in the referendum process called for the state ballot board to determine the language that voters would see in the polling booth.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Brexit referendum took place in 2016, where millions of Brits cast their vote on whether the country should stay or leave the EU.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Biden hopes to flip that script and win by turning the election into a referendum on Trump.
    — Doyle McManus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The ball is kept off the ground again; the election actually shapes up as a referendum on Trump at this point.
    — Sean Trende, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
  • At that point, the next potential battle over the law could be a 2024 referendum.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The vote could be a referendum, of sorts, on the legacy of outgoing Mayor John Giles.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
  • If approved, then the referendum question would be on the ballot in May 2023.
    — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2022
  • As much as possible, Trump plans to cast the election as a referendum on Biden.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • In the lead-up to the referendum, the three judges presiding over the Little Rock District Court underscored the need for a new courthouse.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The bill gives the city and county the latitude to impose a sales tax – but only if voters okayed it through a referendum.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
  • There's also a referendum to lower the voting age from 20 to 18.
    — Huizhong Wu, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, the outcome in Weinstein's case isn’t a referendum on the current state of #MeToo.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The referendum, which had a low turnout rate, didn’t settle the legal back-and-forth and internal power plays.
    — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The industry launched a referendum attempt to repeal the law and defund the council.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Which brings us to the third goal: making the 2024 election a choice between two flawed candidates, not a referendum on Biden’s first three years.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The bill will become void if fast-food companies do not withdraw the referendum on AB 257 by Jan. 1.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This election may well be a referendum on the kind of governance Reagan warned us about decades ago.
    — Dan Crenshaw, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The campaign is now strategizing on how to prevent the court from ordering the removal of the referendum from the ballot.
    — Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2024
  • At Monday’s meeting, the council will vote on the phrasing of the referendum question.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That’s why this game feels like an appropriate referendum on the kind of program Day has built.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The next year, Mr. Erdogan pushed for a referendum that moved much of the state’s power from the Parliament to the president — meaning him.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • But the notion that the 2024 election is going to be a referendum on companies that want to help people and planet is gone.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The last thing the Iowa football program needs is a referendum on whether Kirk Ferentz respects the jobs of the reporters who ask him questions after games.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The referendum also builds on work by Indigenous groups in Ecuador.
    — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The work will be funded through a 2021 bond referendum approved by voters.
    — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There is also a referendum on allowing nighttime police raids on homes.
    — Nayara Batschke and Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The Miami-Dade elections department will post notices at voting sites informing voters that the referendum is canceled.
    — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024

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