lawmaker
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of lawmaker
First recorded in 1350–1400, lawmaker is from Middle English lawe maker. See law 1, maker
Example Sentences
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Lawmaker Otiende Amollo said they were pressing the authorities for answers.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Lawmaker Aleksei Jevgrafov said his Centre Party voted against the reform.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
Lawmaker Pieter Omtzigt, a centrist who founded his own party after breaking with the Christian Democrats, is trailing slightly behind the three in the latest polls but could also play a key role.
From Reuters • Nov. 22, 2023
Lawmaker Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, from the governing party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said “all ideas and all proposals will always be welcome to debate them, hear them to agree with or not.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023
Those facts which the Law expresly condemneth, but the Law-maker by other manifest signes of his will tacitly approveth, are lesse Crimes, than the same facts, condemned both by the Law, and Lawmaker.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
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