Thesaurus results for LAWMAKER

lawmaker

noun

ˈlȯ-ˌmā-kər

as in legislator

a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws the state's lawmakers worked long into the night drafting a bill that would be acceptable to everyone

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Recent Examples of lawmaker Congress has made some changes over the decades, but there’s no signal right now that most lawmakers are willing to challenge the independence of the institution. —

Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 7 Nov. 2024 Tester beat Rosendale by a narrow margin in 2018, though the Republican lawmaker was generally viewed as a weak candidate because of his far-right views and the fact he was born in Baltimore and graduated from high school on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. —

Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024 Domestically, the prospect of Republican lawmakers endorsing such a proposal is also uncertain. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024 July 10: Democratic lawmakers begin publicly urging Biden to exit the 2024 race. —

Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lawmaker