Thesaurus results for LEGISLATOR

legislator

noun

ˈle-jə-ˌslā-tər

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 In his Tuesday remarks, DeSantis noted legislators have also not completed the budget for the next fiscal year, which could eventually be combined with the redistricting efforts. —

Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026 Maryland legislators assured utilities that ratepayers would cover the costs. —

Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2026 The president and his allies are urging Indiana GOP voters, right now, to purge the state legislators who refused to turn their 7-2 GOP map into a 9-0 sweep against the Democrats. —

David Weigel, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026 Bill Essayli, a former state legislator who leads the federal prosecutor’s office in Los Angeles, joined the raid along with a Fox News crew. —

A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for legislator

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In late March, grainy photographs of the Republican South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham relaxing at Disney World spread across the internet.

— Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
While the issue is relatively new in some states, the senators noted that California’s law is more than 30 years old.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2026