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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 Our office will continue to work with legislators, stakeholders, and our community for a better Lake County. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Even Republican legislators on the public safety committees, through spokespeople, declined to comment. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026 Kreiss-Tomkins, who was previously a state legislator, finished the state’s open primary race in August in the top spot, with another Democratic candidate, Tom Begich, in second place. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 21 Oct. 2026 After over an hour of testimony, legislators killed that bill as well. — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for legislator

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The path Republicans take is not entirely up to him, however, given that an individual senator has enough privileges to grind floor business to a crawl.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026
The younger Cárdenas began his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, better known as the PRI, and served as a senator and later as governor of the western state of Michoacán.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 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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