naynoun
The House rejected the plan last week with 68 "yeas" and 31 "nays."
Is that a yea or a nay?
Medical authorities say there's little evidence so far behind these products' claims but say more research is needed for a definitive yea or nay.

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Examples of yea

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Additional question formats for minimizing 'yea-saying' responses are suggested.
In the latter group we can expect more yea-saying and inconsistent answers than in the former.
Of the yeas, 95 per cent relied on their own statements and 5 per cent on printed material.
If we had extreme yea-saying, everyone would have said yes and there would be no explanatory power of our independent variables.
We believe this result may be due to excessive yea saying at high bid amounts in the dichotomous choice question formats.
We can rule out extreme yea-saying since we have 50 per cent who say no to the start bid and these are not random.
This combined with the inconsistent answers would indicate yea-saying.
This has been attributed to yea saying in the dichotomous choice question format.
This tendency for yea saying may be exacerbated in countries where people do not have experience with open elections or voting on tax referenda.
Yea, or else they shall have a perpetual imprisonment.
Some evidence of 'yea-saying' was seen in the responses.
To mitigate the possible effects of 'yea-saying', responses to the three valuation questions were combined using the most conservative of the responses.
The comment was meant to point out the self-indulgent nature of the poems and the yea-saying of the poet's friends, who had ceased to be critical.
This supports the initial concern that yea saying might be more of a problem in countries that do not have a history of open elections or citizens voting on referenda.
Under-reporting can result from concealing the truth or failing to remember, while over-reporting is most often caused by exaggeration of the truth or a general yea-saying tendency.
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