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as in briefcase
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as in consul
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attaché
Noun
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In Deal or No Deal Island, briefcases are hidden around an island with more than $200 million in prize money split between them.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2025 -
Also, standing in for a briefcase, Gomez carried a black East-West OSOI bag.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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The federal prosecutor for the Wyoming Territory reported afterward that local authorities had hoped Frederick Bee, the Chinese consul in San Francisco, would arrange for Chinese testimony, but none materialized.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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In the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, for example, European and American consuls, missionaries, and merchants were landing on Eastern Mediterranean shores in growing numbers and were founding schools, universities, and their own courts of law.—
Vanessa Ogle,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Oct. 2015
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The company plans to distribute the particles through a machine mounted on an aircraft, according to Pasztor, a veteran climate diplomat and policy expert at the United Nations and elsewhere.—
Ramin Skibba,
WIRED,
22 Mar. 2025
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The State Department’s 2,500 Security Service agents, for instance, typically protect diplomats and root out visa and passport fraud.—
Brad Heath, Joshua Schneyer, Marisa Taylor, Sarah N. Lynch, Mike Spector,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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Plus, the strangest news from across the world Read On Best Visit G&T Garden Tours Aficionados of English gardens, pack your valises for one of G&T Garden Tours’ week-long trips to the West Country.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
23 Mar. 2024
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That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings.—
Ross Kenneth Urken,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2024
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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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The escalating trade war has driven stock prices down and may hit Americans in their wallets as businesses pass on the pain by raising prices.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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If passed, the dollar could spread further—not just through banks and borders, but through crypto wallets and code.—
Jon Helgi Egilsson,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.—
Peter Bridges,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Jan. 2022
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The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.—
Anne Thériault,
Longreads,
14 May 2021
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Grating portmanteaus are a crucial part of their relationship.—
Liam Sherwin-Murray,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Stories have mingled love and magic for centuries, but the portmanteau crystallized as a market category during the pandemic.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Attaché.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attach%C3%A9. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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