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[sen-it] / ˈsɛn ɪt /






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UC’s admissions board — a part of the faculty-led Academic Senate — plans to deliver recommendations in a report on testing in February to the senate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Without a vice-president, the senate president, Aboubakary Abdoulaye, is next in line to lead in the event of a power vacuum, until a presidential election can be organised.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The board also dissolved the faculty senate and replaced it with an advisory council to the president, which includes two faculty members from each of the university’s colleges and additional members appointed by the president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

The bill now heads to the senate, where it is also expected to secure approval, before being enacted by the president.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

He’d written his remarks over the course of a couple of weeks, working on them in between Illinois senate votes.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Since news of the deal broke, he said he has met with the system chancellors, provosts, program directors and faculty senates about the acquisition.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

But the school’s faculty and student senates each passed resolutions calling for a change and the university’s alumni board of directors supported reassessing the team name’s appropriateness.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

State senates range in size from twenty members in Alaska to sixty-seven members in Minnesota.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

The animosity has spread to the 50 statehouses and the 7,382 people who serve in the houses and senates there.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2012

Its members, ninety-two in number, are appointed by the Emperor for life, on nomination of the Bundesrath, and they are organized in six civil and four criminal senates.

From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg


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