selector

as in voter
someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection the librarians who are the selectors of the annual award for best children's book

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Noun
  • Some question the funding and motives of that multistate group, which tries to maintain accurate voter rolls.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Quinn’s petition, to put an advisory referendum on voters’ ballots, seems well intended.
    David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And why, in a moment of barbed stories assailing theatrical movie budgets and picture pickers, theatrical moviegoing’s future falls to its best artists, and the studio execs who bet on their big creative swings.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Edward Lear’s monumental painting Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling (1812) is a depiction of the Himalayan path frequented by Buddhist tea pickers.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots. 2009: Chicago residents dug a little deeper into their wallets to pay for city parking, as rates increased due to the city’s lopsided parking meter deal.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • This was the first year where states were required to certify their electoral votes by a specific day: Six days before the electors are required to meet to cast the state’s votes, which is on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Selector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selector. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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