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senate

noun as in legislature

noun as in parliament

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At a meeting of the university’s faculty senate in August 2023, just before new rankings were due out, Dr. Sasse posed a question: “What is the North Star of things we organize around?”

McCormick has run for a senate seat in Pennsylvania before, failing to make it out of the GOP primary in 2022 when he lost the nomination to Dr. Mehmet Oz.

From Salon

If Tuesday’s results hold, she will be the city’s first Filipino American council member, besting a Latino politician who has served as an assemblymember and leader of the state senate.

A key senate race will also be decided that could decide what party controls the upper chamber of Congress.

From BBC

Republicans lost control of the Pennsylvania state house in 2022, but they still control the state senate, where the party has refused to pass legislation allowing the early count of mail-in ballots.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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