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representative
B2Frequent NGSL-2typical of a particular group of people; that is a typical example of something
a person who has been chosen to speak or vote for somebody else or for a group of people, or to take the place of somebody else
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(Laughter) But it would never have occurred to me to think that just because I had read a novel in which a character was a serial killer that he was somehow representative
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I would advocate for more of a direct democracy, not a representative democracy, and laws that are short enough for people to understand.
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