senates

plural of senate

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Recent Examples of senates Indiana and Utah have also passed laws limiting the powers of faculty senates, and the University of Kentucky did so on its own initiative, disbanding its university senate and thereby stripping faculty of decision-making power over academic matters. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senates
Noun
  • With Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress, the courts have emerged as one of the main impediments to Trump administration policy.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The top four appropriators, Cole, Collins, House ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-MA), and Senate ranking member Patty Murray (D-WA), have to diligently work together in an effort to achieve the tough process of passing 12 appropriations bills across the floor of both chambers.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Along with Evans, the speakers of the Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina houses of representatives also signed onto the letter asking for help from Congress to help the forestry industry in their respective states.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Awards will include the Tokyo Projects Award, worth $13,300 (JPY2M), selected by an industry jury; the Asian Gen‑Z Award, worth $3,300 (JPY500,000), chosen by a committee of Gen-Z film students; as well as in-kind awards from leading Asian post-production houses White Light and Kongchak.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes the school nurse would accost me in the halls.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The subdivisions didn’t end in the high-school halls.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025

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