diplomatist

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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. Nicholas Eberstadt, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
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Noun
  • Abdel Kareem Hana / AP The two diplomats told NBC News that Hamas was also asked to leave Qatar and relocate to Turkey in April.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Diplomatic Expulsions In October, Canada expelled India's high commissioner and five other diplomats, alleging they were linked to coercive efforts aimed at silencing Sikh separatists' activism in Canada.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The series centers Wyler, who is described as having decades of diplomatic experience around the world, particularly in the Middle East, owing in part to her husband Hal (Rufus Sewell) serving as the American ambassador to Lebanon.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Trump’s first Cabinet pick was Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, to serve as ambassador to the United Nations.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • After Prabowo ordered his followers home, Jokowi sent an emissary to seek talks.
    Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
  • There are, however, some officials who as needed can act as emissaries, even if the cardinals themselves cannot leave until a successful ballot is cast, meaning one cardinal receives two-thirds of the votes and is elected pope.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Shortly after the Biden administration's approval of Ukraine using long-range missiles to strike inside of Russia, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's foreign minister blamed the West for the expansion of the war.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The key event of Mann’s conversion came in June, when ultranationalists in Berlin murdered his friend Walther Rathenau, the Weimar Republic’s Jewish foreign minister.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Diplomatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomatist. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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