as in senate
the building in which a state legislature meets
the legislators were called to the capitol for an emergency session
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Recent Examples of capitol
Major rallies were held throughout the Bay Area, at Sacramento’s capitol grounds, in Southern California, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in New York City and Boston and other locations.
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Nhat V. Meyer, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
The Onyx take their name from the rose onyx, the rare local gemstone featured prominently in the construction of Colorado’s capitol.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
Not all state capitols have a collection of presidential portraits, but Colorado is proud to be one that does.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
In other cities, demonstrators are gathering in shopping centers, local libraries and state capitols.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
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Nhat V. Meyer, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
The Onyx take their name from the rose onyx, the rare local gemstone featured prominently in the construction of Colorado’s capitol.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
Not all state capitols have a collection of presidential portraits, but Colorado is proud to be one that does.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
In other cities, demonstrators are gathering in shopping centers, local libraries and state capitols.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitol
Noun
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In the spring of last year, eighteen professors met to discuss university governance and alighted on the idea of creating a faculty senate—something that Stanford, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, and many other schools already have.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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That legislation has been passed on the house side of the legislature and is now under consideration by the Maryland state senate.—
Edward Conroy,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Teal, the Douglas County commissioner, said there are bills passed in the statehouse every legislative session that explicitly exempt home-rule counties from having to comply.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
8 June 2025
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However, Trump won the state overall by 18 points, and on a local level, the Republicans have had a supermajority in the statehouse since 2022.—
Martha McHardy
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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“Capitol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitol. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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