as in legislator
a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws one of the most politically adept solons in the state legislature

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Recent Examples of solon With all these no-shows this year, shouldn’t City Hall reach out in the spirit of bipartisanship and extend an invite to the extinguished solon Tran? Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025 Right about then, the Academy solons were probably wishing for something, anything, to distract attention from the Disney imbroglio. Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 Put some of your money in emerging markets, say the solons. William Baldwin, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024 These solons will not be bribed into embracing the future! Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2018 The NFL Players Association has long been the most toothless of the big-league unions, while the NCAA has a vested interest in denying that its main money-maker presents any contradictions for the solons of higher education. Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2017
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  • Murphy said lawmakers have already been upping their security details in the wake of several acts of political violence across the country this year, such as the assassination of two Democratic state legislators in Minnesota this summer.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Senators for decades have cherished the ability to filibuster, allowing extended debates on the floor that required legislators of both parties to compromise on legislation.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • In many ways, this was par for the course for the senator from our nation’s geographically smallest state.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In the Senate, a single senator can delay a nominee's confirmation.
    Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Solon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solon. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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