senate

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Recent Examples of senate 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 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 The United States senator and the Democratic senate minority leader has spent his career serving his country in politics. 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 See All Example Sentences for senate
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Noun
  • The mother and daughter couldn’t swim, and the family waited out the storm in their home as the waters flooded — but didn’t dislodge — their house.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
  • Federal grant funding had been earmarked for the factory, but the money was taken back before any houses were produced.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Voters didn’t grant the supervisors authority to conduct star chamber proceedings hidden from public view.
    Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 19 July 2025
  • Historically, Scherer explained, even when one party controls both chambers of Congress, 60 votes are still required to pass a budget through the Senate.
    The Editors, The Atlantic, 19 July 2025

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“Senate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senate. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.

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