Thesaurus results for LEGISLATOR

legislator

noun

ˈle-jə-ˌslā-tər

Definition of legislator

as in senator

a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws the legislators met in an all-night session to hammer out the details of the bill

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Recent Examples of legislator The group, launched in 1969, provides training and works with state legislators and others to advocate changes to the state’s criminal justice system. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 It hasn’t yet been announced how much a federal tax credit will cost, which may impact legislators’ opinions on the idea. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026 In 2024 and 2025 legislators attempted to switch up the district’s elections. — Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2026 In an effort to curb the worsening decline and prevent more wells from running dry, California legislators in 2014 passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for legislator

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Paramount filed paperwork of its own Wednesday, just before the virtual hearing, essentially telling the Garden State senator to mind his own business.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
That left the senator who had helped put college athlete rights on the Congressional agenda without a formal perch in the panels where any comprehensive legislation would take shape.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of senator

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Some Tennessee lawmakers went further, proposing to prohibit providers from administering mRNA vaccines altogether.

— Sally C. Pipes, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
In March, the Trail Blazers were sold for $4 billion, while state and local lawmakers recently agreed on hundreds of millions in funding for a $600 million renovation of the Blazers’ home court.

— Brian Malarkey, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of lawmaker

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In the Mongol model, universal empire was matched with the extreme personalization of political authority, with the Great Khan functioning as the primary lawgiver not accountable to anyone else.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Centuries earlier, the ancient lawgiver Solon had sought to curb pleonexia by legislating against luxury and economic inequality.

— David Lay Williams, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

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