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Recent Examples of diplomatist
The trouble, rather, is that even our top foreign-policy experts and our most sophisticated diplomatists are creatures of our own cultural heritage and intellectual environment.
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Nicholas Eberstadt, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
Nicholas Eberstadt, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diplomatist
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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
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The ministry also presented the Russian diplomat with fragments of the drones as evidence.—
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14 Feb. 2025
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However, Leica and Chevy will still be around to spread warmth and cheer with Leica planning to serve the health system as an ambassador, making visits for special events and fundraising activities, and Chevy hoping to visit his friends from time to time as an official ambassador.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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Emanuel stepped down as ambassador to Japan ahead of President Trump’s inauguration.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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All empires have, like the Roman Empire, been… The American System and the World Organization On the day our plenipotentiaries exchange their full powers, an immortal date will be inscribed in American diplomatic history.—
Ezequiel Padilla,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Sep. 2024
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These succeeded to the extent that a meeting was brought about in 1880 between plenipotentiaries of the three belligerents and the American Ministers accredited to those countries on board an American naval vessel in the harbor of Arica.—
Edwin M. Borchard,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Oct. 2011
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In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.—
Crawford Gribben,
WSJ,
29 Apr. 2022
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The Franciscan Plano Carpini, who traveled the empire as papal legate in 1246, described a draconian tax collector demanding one in three boys from every Russian family, as well as unmarried women.—
Colin Thubron,
The New York Review of Books,
6 July 2021
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Being the destination for the first overseas visit by the top U.S. diplomat would have been big for Panama in any case, but Rubio comes as the emissary of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly suggested the U.S. retake the Panama Canal.—
Alma Solís,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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Qin Fu is supposed to be meeting an emissary of China’s Empress Dowager on arrival, sent to catch a gang of political fugitives, but Holmes encourages his new protégé to assume his identity – apparently their names sound similar in Chinese – and investigate the Chinatown murders on his behalf.—
James Marsh,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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Jordan's current foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told State TV that the expulsion of Palestinians to the country would be a breach of Jordan's historic peace treaty with Israel and seen as a declaration of war.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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Why? Claude Joseph, the foreign minister and acting prime minister at that time, declared a state of siege and imposed martial law.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Diplomatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomatist. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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