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parliaments

noun

plural of parliament

as in legislatures

the highest lawmaking body of a political unit the treaty was referred to the nation's parliament for ratification

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Recent Examples of parliaments The British and Australian parliaments could legislate to alter a monarch’s immunity. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026 As supposedly independent states, all members of the USSR had their own presidents and parliaments. — 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 That last insight must come as a shock to a president who until recently viewed the legislature, controlled by his own party, roughly as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un or Russia’s Vladimir Putin regard their rubber-stamp parliaments. — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 12 June 2026 The country elected its first female prime minister just last year, and women currently make up less than 15% of the House of Representatives, according to IPU Parline, which tracks global data on national parliaments. — Yumi Asada, CNN Money, 7 June 2026 Thursday’s municipal elections marked the biggest political test for Starmer since Labour’s landslide victory in the 2024 General Election, with roughly 5,000 seats contested across 136 councils in England, in addition to six mayoral races and elections for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments. — Callum Sutherland, Time, 8 May 2026 In general, any agreements to end a war must be signed by the presidents, and then they must either be ratified by parliaments or through a referendum. — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026 But the leaders have yet to sign the treaty and parliaments have yet to ratify it. — Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026

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In Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, top Democrats fought the program but were overridden by Republican legislatures.

— Cory Turner, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026
The States Project, an organization focused on electing Democrats to state legislatures, has raised more than $100 million this cycle.

— Dan Merica, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026

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Bolsonaro's slate of congressional candidates also fared well, ensuring that Brazil will have one of the most conservative congresses in years, and a legislative branch aligned with Bolsonaro's goals, or ready to thwart Lula's agenda.

— David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
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

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