chargé d'affaires

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Recent Examples of chargé d'affaires Condolences were sent by foreign leaders and diplomats, including the U.S. charge d'affaires. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012 Elizabeth Rood, the charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is also in attendance at court, CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reported. Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 1 July 2022 Earlier in the day, Kuwait followed Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by ordering the Lebanese charge d'affaires Saturday to leave the emirate within two days. The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2021 Daniel Smith to lead the US Embassy in New Delhi as the new charge d'affaires. Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 May 2021 In Bum Chun; Andrei Lankov, director, NK News, professor, Kookmin University; Evans J.R. Revere, former deputy chief of mission and charge d'affaires, U.S. Embassy, Seoul. Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2021 Beyond Yovanovitch, staffers like her replacement, charge d'affaires Bill Taylor, and David Holmes, who served as political counselor in Kyiv, were called to testify about Trump's plan. Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 6 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chargé d'affaires
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • On the House side, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will go head-to-head with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and her effort to allow proxy voting for new mothers, which Johnson opposes.
    The Hill, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Pettersen is leading a bipartisan charge in Congress to allow proxy voting for new parents.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Canadian, British and Australian diplomats in Panama did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Chargé d'affaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charg%C3%A9%20d%27affaires. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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