chargé d'affaires

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Recent Examples of chargé d'affaires Condolences were sent by foreign leaders and diplomats, including the U.S. charge d'affaires. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012 Elizabeth Rood, the charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is also in attendance at court, CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reported. Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 1 July 2022 Earlier in the day, Kuwait followed Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by ordering the Lebanese charge d'affaires Saturday to leave the emirate within two days. The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2021 Daniel Smith to lead the US Embassy in New Delhi as the new charge d'affaires. Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 May 2021 In Bum Chun; Andrei Lankov, director, NK News, professor, Kookmin University; Evans J.R. Revere, former deputy chief of mission and charge d'affaires, U.S. Embassy, Seoul. Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2021 Beyond Yovanovitch, staffers like her replacement, charge d'affaires Bill Taylor, and David Holmes, who served as political counselor in Kyiv, were called to testify about Trump's plan. Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 6 May 2021
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Noun
  • Since late December, the foreign minister has visited Washington D.C. thrice, Spain and the UAE for bilateral visits, Paris, Munich and Oman to attend conferences, and in Johannesburg for the G20 foreign ministers meeting.
    Vasuki Shastry, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Russia’s deputy foreign minister on Saturday said preparations were underway for a meeting between Trump and Putin, a further sign that the Russian leader’s isolation from the U.S. was beginning to thaw under Trump.
    Justin Spike and Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The tension arose from the fact that Mike—and by proxy, Harvey—might at any moment get caught in this masquerade.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as a proxy for Mars by researchers.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His comments were aired on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where hundreds of anxious European diplomats and others gathered expecting to hear Vice President JD Vance speak about President Trump’s strategy to broker peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
    Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The ministry also presented the Russian diplomat with fragments of the drones as evidence.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Will be rendered speechless by a missing button on the blouse of the wife of the Swiss consul, and the way the wind brushed back Agafya’s hair to show her collarbone.
    Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In his role as consul, Marcus uncovered the conspiracy and persuaded the senate to declare war on Catiline, who was subsequently killed in battle.
    Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012

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“Chargé d'affaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charg%C3%A9%20d%27affaires. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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