Thesaurus results for LEGISLATURES

legislatures

noun

plural of legislature

as in parliaments

a group of people with the power to make or change laws Our legislature passed a law requiring people to wear safety belts. Each state has its own legislature. state legislatures

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Recent Examples of legislatures Child safety experts lauded the settlement and the accompanying pressure campaign as a giant leap forward in the effort to regulate an industry that until this year appeared all but impenetrable to reform, either from the courts or legislatures. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026 The governance decisions legislatures make in the coming months will shape outcomes for children for decades. — Darla Silva, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Across the country, parents, teachers, school districts and state legislatures are currently grappling with similar questions revolving around how much technology should be allowed in the classroom. — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2026 Alabama, Alaska, Montana and New Hampshire do not have an applicable statute and do not use drop boxes, according to the state legislatures conference. — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 Red-state legislatures rushed to pass stringent prohibitions. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026 Gun safety does not begin and end with high-profile fights in Washington or state legislatures. — Brittany Berlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026 Talwani's June ruling concluded Trump overstepped a president's authority under the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress to set federal election rules. — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 24 Aug. 2026 The data center industry is only one face of an arrogant oligarchy that people believe now runs Congress, the courts, the White House, state legislatures and local governments. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026

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As supposedly independent states, all members of the USSR had their own presidents and parliaments.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Those concerns haven’t stopped European parliaments from pushing for their own versions of an Australian-style ban.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2026

Definition of parliaments

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The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names, more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
Palestinian soccer officials have long argued — including at FIFA annual congresses across the past 15 years, before Infantino was president — that Israel violates statutes by letting teams from settlements in the West Bank play in the national league.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026

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