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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
Noun
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Russia has not permitted U.S. diplomats to visit Hubbard in detention and has refused to say where he is being held, according to the State Department and his family.—
Patrick Reevell,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Kennedy Family's Ties to U.S. Politics The Kennedy family has long been entwined with American political history, producing a lineage of lawmakers, diplomats, and public servants spanning multiple generations.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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Senate confirms Matt Whitaker as Trump's ambassador to NATO.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
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Booker’s speech came in the midst of a vote to confirm Matthew Whitaker as the U.S. ambassador to NATO.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 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
Noun
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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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The letter outlines Iran's views on the current situation following Trump's message, which had been delivered via a UAE emissary on March 12.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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President Trump and his emissaries proposed a 30-day ceasefire in the fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2025
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Tensions between the two countries rose in January over accepting flights of immigrants deported from the U.S. Noem sat down Thursday morning with the country's foreign minister and was set to meet with Colombia's leader and police to discuss efforts to fight organized crime.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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Earlier this week, the Lithuanian foreign minister visited Washington, D.C., to express her country’s eagerness for more Americans.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Diplomatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomatist. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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