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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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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the talks followed an understanding reached during President Donald Trump's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and contact between senior Russian and U.S. diplomats and other officials in Saudi Arabia.—
JILL LAWLESS AND AAMER MADHANI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Istanbul negotiations followed earlier discussions between senior diplomats from both nations in Saudi Arabia, as well as a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Putin.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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What To Know Marie Fontanel, who is the French ambassador to the Philippines, wrote on Monday in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that FS Charles de Gaulle, France's aircraft carrier, left the Southeast Asian country and returned to the South China Sea after a three-day visit.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Several K-pop stars have become brand ambassadors for Calvin Klein in recent years, including BTS’ Jungkook — featured in the spring 2024 jeans campaign — Blackpink’s Jennie, Sandara Park of 2NE1 and Red Velvet’s Joy and Sunmi.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
26 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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On Friday, the Trump administration sent an emissary to Venezuela to meet directly with Maduro, and return home with six American hostages.—
Claire Healy,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2025
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That was the year when Fred Popenoe, proprietor of the West India Gardens nursery in Altadena, sent an emissary to Mexico with the task of bringing back budwood cuttings for the purpose of grafting them onto avocado seedlings, with the hope that some would become commercially successful varieties.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
1 Feb. 2025
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In 2018, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a Yezidi woman who survived ISIS atrocities, asked Turkey's foreign minister to stop airstrikes on Sinjar.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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Goff has had a storied political career and has served as foreign minister, a Labour Party leader and mayor of Auckland.—
Rachel Wolf,
Fox News,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Diplomatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomatist. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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