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a member of a senate or the U.S. Senate Republican senators a former senator Senator Inouye

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plural of senator

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a member of a senate or the U.S. Senate Republican senators a former senator Senator Inouye

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Many senators chanted Lula’s name after the vote, while Bolsonaro supporters quickly left the chamber. — Mauricio Savarese, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026 Jackson worked as a state senator, including as Senate president from 2018 to 2024. — Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026

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Academic titleholders at Cornell -- including professors, senior lecturers, librarians, archivists and others -- are eligible to be senators, who serve three-year terms. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Our senators should take Nebraska’s interests to Washington, not simply bring Washington’s politics home to us. — Jesse E. Stanley, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for senator

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The retiring congressman has at times bucked House Democratic leadership in voting with Republicans.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
The congressman whose newly redrawn California district leans Democratic, switched from Republican to independent while in Congress and continues to caucus with Republicans, reported Politico.

— Maham Javaid, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026

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For more than three decades, voters have replaced incumbent legislators with fresh faces and shifted control of the House and Senate from Democrats to Republicans and back again.

— Scott Warren, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Labour legislator Jo Cox was shot and stabbed in 2016 by a far-right extremist, and Conservative David Amess was stabbed in 2021 by an attacker inspired by the Islamic State group.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

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