as in ambassador
a person sent by a country's government to represent it in a foreign country
They arranged a dinner to welcome the foreign diplomats. She served as a U.S. diplomat in France for several years.
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Recent Examples of diplomat
Her father is an Argentine bon vivant who is also a diplomat, a drug addict, and a gambler.
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Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
To piece together what happened, reporters for The Times reviewed secret reports and interviewed officials from Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, diplomats in Damascus, associates of al-Assad and rebels who participated in his ouster.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
That closeness is a testament to the skills of case officers, especially considering that spies regularly engage and build rapport with individuals who pose threats to American safety—criminals, terrorists, diplomats from the world’s most odious regimes.
—Jeremy Hurewitz, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
Leaf's team was the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade, since the U.S. shuttered its embassy in Damascus in 2012, although a small number of U.S. diplomats had been assigned to political advisory roles with military units inside Syria since then.
—Abby Sewell and Matthew Lee The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
To piece together what happened, reporters for The Times reviewed secret reports and interviewed officials from Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, diplomats in Damascus, associates of al-Assad and rebels who participated in his ouster.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
That closeness is a testament to the skills of case officers, especially considering that spies regularly engage and build rapport with individuals who pose threats to American safety—criminals, terrorists, diplomats from the world’s most odious regimes.
—Jeremy Hurewitz, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
Leaf's team was the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade, since the U.S. shuttered its embassy in Damascus in 2012, although a small number of U.S. diplomats had been assigned to political advisory roles with military units inside Syria since then.
—Abby Sewell and Matthew Lee The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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