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consul

noun

Definition of consulnext
as in attaché

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Recent Examples of consul Pablo Neruda played a key role when he was appointed Chile’s special consul for Spanish immigration. — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 19 June 2026 When Pierce took office, Hawthorne was given a posting as consul to Liverpool. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 Foreign Minister Oana Toiu summoned Russian Ambassador Vladimir Lipaev and told him the consul had 72 hours to leave Romania. — Arkansas Online, 30 May 2026 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 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
  • Cuban diplomats present at the assembly then walked out of the room.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Monserrati writes that Italians, and Europeans in general, got many of their ideas about samurai from a 1900 book by Japanese diplomat Nitobe Inazō, a strong supporter of Japan’s colonization of Korea.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Know More The Pentagon has negotiated equity or some equivalent, like warrants, in at least 10 companies since Cerberus cofounder Steve Feinberg was confirmed as deputy defense secretary last year.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Kosta The two rivals also do not agree on Diamantis, the former deputy state budget director at the Office of Policy and Management who was fired by Lamont in a high-profile corruption scandal.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of deputy
Noun
  • One is for an attacker’s server to act as a proxy that’s placed between the Muse user and Meta endpoint.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Saudis, then mired in a regional cold war with Iran, viewed the Houthis as an Iranian proxy force that threatened the kingdom’s borders.
    — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of proxy
Noun
  • According to the statement, Arnoldo André Tinoco, the Costa Rican foreign minister at the time, assured Havana at the time that the steps did not mean a rupture in relations.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Many of the images show Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov surrounded by prominent figures such as actor Vladimir Mashkov, singer Tatyana Kurtukova and Margarita Simonyan, the editor in chief of the propaganda publication RT.
    — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of foreign minister
Noun
  • Iran’s ambassador to Russia also said in February 2025 that Tehran and Moscow no longer needed SWIFT for bilateral banking relations and were using their own confidential bank-messaging systems.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Speaking of which, our final fancy-breakfast-table showdown of the season, in which Byron and Secretary Mullins manage to win the ever-begrudging Russian ambassador Maxim Petrov over to their plan.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of ambassador

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