lawgivers

plural of lawgiver
as in legislators
a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws political activists strenuously lobbied the state's lawgivers to expand the scope of the civil rights legislation

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Noun
  • Murphy said lawmakers have already been upping their security details in the wake of several acts of political violence across the country this year, such as the assassination of two Democratic state legislators in Minnesota this summer.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Senators for decades have cherished the ability to filibuster, allowing extended debates on the floor that required legislators of both parties to compromise on legislation.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Plenty of Republican senators, including Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley, are keen to pass regulation that mitigates AI harms.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • California’s senators backed full disclosure.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Lawgivers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawgivers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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