Elect
Elect verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Rule
Rule verb - To exercise authority or power over.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Earth is visited by a member of an alien civilization who elect lizards to rule them, and sends his robots to seek them out for communication.
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Rule or Elect. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/elect/rule.
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