as in envoy
a person sent on a mission to represent another
a beloved entertainer who has often been sent abroad by the president as his country's goodwill ambassador
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a person sent on a mission to represent another
a beloved entertainer who has often been sent abroad by the president as his country's goodwill ambassador
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Recent Examples of ambassador
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
2 July 2026
The Academy Award winner served as a celebrity ambassador to Fort Worth during the 1970s and was a major promoter of the Fort Worth Zoo.
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Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 July 2026
Sydney Haywood,
Hartford Courant,
25 June 2026
To accommodate the surge, nearly 90% of the agency’s light rail fleet was in operation for match day, with supplemental bus service, coordination with BART and Caltrain, and 100 transit ambassadors to assist with navigation.
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Ekasha Sikka,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
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This is bound to reignite ongoing speculation about Chanel expanding into menswear, which reached new heights when the house tapped Pedro Pascal as ambassador in April under Blazy.
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Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
2 July 2026
The Academy Award winner served as a celebrity ambassador to Fort Worth during the 1970s and was a major promoter of the Fort Worth Zoo.
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Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 July 2026
Noun
The Morgan’s Message medical advisory board is responsible for putting together the resources available to the ambassadors and their chapters.
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Sydney Haywood,
Hartford Courant,
25 June 2026
To accommodate the surge, nearly 90% of the agency’s light rail fleet was in operation for match day, with supplemental bus service, coordination with BART and Caltrain, and 100 transit ambassadors to assist with navigation.
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Ekasha Sikka,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday that special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel for the meeting.
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Ramaphosa has dispatched envoys across the continent to calm governments in countries such as Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria and Mozambique, several of which have already begun evacuating their citizens.
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Swift's representative confirmed that the actor-comedian officiated the July 3 ceremony at Madison Square Garden.
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Some states chose not to send representatives; several of them cited disagreements with the partisan mission.
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The celebration comes 250 years after delegates in Philadelphia approved the Declaration, setting in motion what would become the world's oldest continuing experiment in self-government.
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That hot summer in Philadelphia, the 56 delegates of the Continental Congress who signed the historic document spent a lot of time in nearby taverns, drinking beer and discussing and debating the merits of trying to become an independent nation.
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While theology and ministry studies were designated as nonprofessional, the master of divinity degree often pursued by eventual pastors or ministers does retain professional status.
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Our higher education was started by people of faith — Harvard, Yale, Princeton — were founded to train ministers of the Gospel.
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“Ambassador.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambassador. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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