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The United States senator and the Democratic senate minority leader has spent his career serving his country in politics.
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Makena Gera, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Rutgers’s resolution has since been joined by at least four faculty senates at other Big Ten schools, with Michigan State University becoming the latest Tuesday.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
The faculty senate at the University of Wyoming voted no confidence Monday in President Ed Seidel, reflecting its disapproval over Seidel’s dismissal of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Dean Cameron Wright from his position.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
But look for 2025 to also be a year when more state legislatures challenge the traditional role of faculty senates in university governance.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Makena Gera, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Rutgers’s resolution has since been joined by at least four faculty senates at other Big Ten schools, with Michigan State University becoming the latest Tuesday.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
The faculty senate at the University of Wyoming voted no confidence Monday in President Ed Seidel, reflecting its disapproval over Seidel’s dismissal of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Dean Cameron Wright from his position.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
But look for 2025 to also be a year when more state legislatures challenge the traditional role of faculty senates in university governance.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for senate
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Two other roommates survived, including one who described to police seeing a man in black clothes walk past her in the house.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
1 July 2025
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In the early hours of Nov. 13, students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle were stabbed to death in the girls' off-campus house.—
Kayna Whitworth,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
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There was even a big fight early this year about who would be the speaker and who would kind of wield control of how the chamber operates procedurally.—
Fiction Non Fiction
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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One common example of an arrhythmia is atrial fibrillation (AFib), which begins in the upper chambers of the heart.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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