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The senator will retire from his post at the end of his fifth term, in January 2027.—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025 Among the questions the senators present for review are inquiries about how incentivizing employees at field offices to resign impacted customer service, as well as the effect of incentivizing appeals council employees to do the same on appeals council decisions.—Aris Folley, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025 Gaylord Nelson, the late U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin, is considered the founder of Earth Day.—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025 Here, the senator was passively alluding to environmental injustices, which were commonplace in the 1970s and long before then.—Jerel Ezell, Time, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for senator
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Etymology
Middle English senatour, from Anglo-French senatur, from Latin senator, from senatus
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