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 After the mid-term elections in November, state legislatures will reorganize and begin committee hearings in the spring. — Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Moore will represent the MPA before state legislatures, regulatory agencies and executive branch figures, as the trade association advocates on such issues as production incentives. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 July 2026 Amending the Constitution would require support from two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the nation's state legislatures. — James Powel, USA Today, 5 July 2026 Where federal action is still needed State legislatures are eager to partner with the federal government on national security matters, even in areas with preexisting federal jurisdiction. — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026 The harms associated with pesticides will continue to be a concern for consumers, courts and legislatures. — Sarah J. Morath, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 That means executive orders and White House positioning matters far less than the restrictions and limits on AI moving through state legislatures in Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, and Indiana. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 June 2026 Rather than just letting humanities departments die off, red-state legislatures have flooded public universities with something like a Works Progress Administration for academics. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026 So, parents can also consider asking governors and state legislatures to go back to analog testing. — CNN Money, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legislatures
  1. parliaments
  2. houses
  3. congresses
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Birds fly over houses overshadowed by the mountain in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10, 2026.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • In other stations on the factory floor, modules were taking shape for two houses that will replace houses lost in the Palisades fire.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of houses
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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
Definition of congresses

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