consul

noun

Definition of consulnext
as in attaché

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Recent Examples of consul After the Supreme Council of National Defense meeting in Bucharest, Dan said that the Russian consul in the Black Sea port city of Constanta has been declared persona non grata and that the consulate there will be closed. — Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 Weston Hurt might have given the American consul Sharpless a bit more vocal oomph, but his well-upholstered baritone and awkward dignity were just right. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 11 Apr. 2026 Robert Imbrie, the American consul in Tehran, was brutally murdered in 1924, allegedly because a fanatical religious leader accused him of being a Baha’i and poisoning a well. — Daniel Thomas Potts, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026 But what worries me a little bit more is that some of the professionals at embassies and consuls are not being told to come home. — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for consul
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consul
  1. diplomat
  2. procurator
  3. nuncio
  4. deputy
  5. proxy
  6. foreign minister
  7. ambassador
Noun
  • Initially, diplomats assigned to the region sought to counter Bukele’s growing influence by sharply denouncing his anti-democratic impulses.
    — Daniel Castro, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Carney was known as a diplomat who not only spoke his mind, but was unafraid to challenge prevailing assumptions.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of diplomat
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of procurator
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  • If a bishop or a nuncio—one of the Vatican's ambassadors in the country—has an issue, the Pope is very quick to respond.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The Dicastery for Bishops organizes such appointments, via the Vatican’s ambassador to the country—the nuncio.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Definition of nuncio
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  • Among them were Broward County sheriff’s deputies who wanted photos and a trio of women who lamented they had been drawn into a new Republican-leaning district.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • His prosecutor was a young Johnnie Cochran, later to be a superstar defense lawyer, then a deputy city attorney.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of deputy
Noun
  • This Congress, Luna has been at the center of legislative fights over a congressional stock trading ban, proxy voting for parents, the SAVE America Act, and releasing the Epstein files.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
  • His apparent rubber stamp by the Disney board was used as ammunition by activist investor Nelson Peltz in a bruising proxy fight with the Mouse House.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of proxy
Noun
  • According to reporting in The New York Times, Israel planned to assassinate the Iranian foreign minister and speaker of parliament while the two were conducting negotiations with the United States.
    — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, posted on X in response to Trump’s comments on Friday, bashing the United States and rejecting the idea that the strait could fall out of Iranian control.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of foreign minister
Noun
  • Alongside him is Bartos, a Pennsylvania businessman nominated as deputy ambassador for management and reform.
    — Bethany Mandel, The Washington Examiner, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The twins are both signed to Storm Model Management, appear regularly at fashion weeks around the globe and are brand ambassadors for the British jewelry label Boodles and the accessories label Aspinal of London.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of ambassador

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