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Titus, Roman emperor from AD 79 to 81, sent two consuls to the Campanian region where Pompeii is located after the eruption to provide aid, assess the city and reallocate the property of those who had died in the eruption with no surviving heirs, Zuchtriegel said.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
More recently came claims that the red and white shirts were actually from Sunderland — due to the influence of William Dyer, whose businessman father was Bilbao’s British consul, and who won a 1904 Copa del Rey medal with Athletic.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 19 May 2025
But Fei-hung gets his revenge and saves the day in a literal fiery showdown against the consul's chief enforcer, John (taekwondo master Ken Lo).
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
Her father was a consul; her brother, Clodius Pulcher, was a powerful demagogue and the archenemy of Cicero.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
More recently came claims that the red and white shirts were actually from Sunderland — due to the influence of William Dyer, whose businessman father was Bilbao’s British consul, and who won a 1904 Copa del Rey medal with Athletic.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 19 May 2025
But Fei-hung gets his revenge and saves the day in a literal fiery showdown against the consul's chief enforcer, John (taekwondo master Ken Lo).
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
Her father was a consul; her brother, Clodius Pulcher, was a powerful demagogue and the archenemy of Cicero.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consul
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In the eighties, Petro was a member of the M-19, urban insurgents who caught the world’s attention by taking the American Ambassador and more than a dozen other foreign diplomats hostage for two months.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2026
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He's regarded as one of the main proponents of the president's interest in Greenland, an idea first brought to Trump by billionaire and former diplomat Ronald Lauder.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
14 Jan. 2026
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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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The Dicastery for Bishops organizes such appointments, via the Vatican’s ambassador to the country—the nuncio.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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The ceremony will be presided over by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States.—
Ashley Carnahan,
FOXNews.com,
18 Dec. 2025
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Bashor is an assistant professor of bioengineering and biosciences at Rice and deputy director of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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In the late spring, a University of Utah college student was arrested after a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy tipped off ICE officers to her location and immigration status.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Those competing interpretations of Saudi intent are now colliding most visibly in Yemen, where the Saudi-Emirati alliance originally formed to counter Iran’s Houthi proxy.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Ellison said Paramount would nominate its own slate of directors, waging a proxy fight against its larger rival.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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In 2017, at the height of the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis when Rodríguez was foreign minister, Caracas donated half a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration committee through its oil subsidiary CITGO4.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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Denmark's foreign minister, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, met with Greenland's minister for foreign affairs, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other officials.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Patrick O’Donnell is a paint expert and international brand ambassador for Farrow & Ball, a paint and wallpaper manufacturer.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Jan. 2026
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Israeli media identified the official as Tzachi Braverman, Netanyahu’s chief of staff, who is expected to start as the next ambassador to the United Kingdom in the coming months.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Consul.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consul. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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