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 For the better part of a decade, Colorado legislators have passed laws limiting how state and local officials interact with federal immigration authorities. — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2026 Eventually, Nevada legislators passed an emergency statute banning any device that helped a gambler. — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 The organization’s goal is to get at least 50% of state legislators to submit public comments criticizing the changes, Bermúdez Zimmerman said. — Maia Nehme, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026 The bill was one of an array of measures introduced by legislators this year to regulate the use of chatbots and AI by children, businesses and state agencies. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for legislator

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So to give the Senate itself more power to pass popular bills, the pair will need to find 67 senators willing to dilute their own individual power — at least just a little bit.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
The senator is also requesting details about whether the data breach has been verified and what measures the company is taking in response.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026

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After strong public and state lawmaker pushback, the facility is still being built, but downsized.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2026
But, not long afterward, lawmakers in Florida approved a new map aimed at flipping four seats to Republicans, and in early May Virginia’s top court struck down the redraw there, on procedural grounds.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

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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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