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Our senators aren’t listening to us Few things in life are worse than listening to endless hold music when connecting to live customer service agents at your bank, utility, or airline.—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2026 In a sign of the GOP’s loyalty to him, Republican senators added $1 billion in White House security upgrades for the ballroom to an unrelated bill this week.—Steven Sloan, Fortune, 9 May 2026 In a sign of the GOP's loyalty to him, Republican senators added $1 billion in White House security upgrades for the ballroom to an unrelated bill this week.—ABC News, 9 May 2026 The only four Black congressmen who have represented Louisiana since the end of the Reconstruction era appealed to state senators to keep two majority-Black districts in a state where one-third of voters are Black.—Arkansas Online, 9 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for senator
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Etymology
Middle English senatour, from Anglo-French senatur, from Latin senator, from senatus