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[sen-it] / ˈsɛn ɪt /






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Without a vice-president, the senate president, Aboubakary Abdoulaye, is next in line to lead in the event of a power vacuum, until a presidential election can be organised.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Sarwar previously said he would not take a peerage, and both he and Andy Burnham have expressed support for replacing the Lords with a senate of the nations and regions.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The board also dissolved the faculty senate and replaced it with an advisory council to the president, which includes two faculty members from each of the university’s colleges and additional members appointed by the president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

The senate said it will convene a work group to meet over the next year to look at the issue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

“Centurion, your party is excused. The senate has other matters to discuss. And, Octavian, if I may confer with you for a moment.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Since news of the deal broke, he said he has met with the system chancellors, provosts, program directors and faculty senates about the acquisition.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

But the school’s faculty and student senates each passed resolutions calling for a change and the university’s alumni board of directors supported reassessing the team name’s appropriateness.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

State senates range in size from twenty members in Alaska to sixty-seven members in Minnesota.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

The animosity has spread to the 50 statehouses and the 7,382 people who serve in the houses and senates there.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2012

The municipal corporations, the lesser senates, as antiquity has justly styled them, deserve to be considered as the heart of the cities, and the sinews of the Republic.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various




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