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
  • After all, this appearance was meant to both plug the movie and appeal to Academy Award voters deciding whether or not to give him a Best Actor trophy.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2025
  • More than 200,000 voters statewide are believed to have missing information.
    Steve Harrison, NPR, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Serving as the guest picker for ESPN’s fan-favorite pregame show is the cherry on top of Scheffler’s incredible year.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Twelve people were featured in a video that Wolfe previously shared on his social channels, ranging from other pickers and co-executive producers to production supervisors and a director of photography.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Smith's team summarized how Trump pressured state and federal officials with false claims of election fraud in 2020, recruited Republican presidential electors to support him in key swing states that President Joe Biden won and then spurred a violent mob to march on the Capitol.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The legislation also imposed new requirements on states to make certain that competing slates of electors were not presented to Congress, something that Mr. Trump and his allies tried to engineer in 2020.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Selector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selector. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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