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delegacies

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plural of delegacy

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a body of persons chosen as representatives of a larger group the committee chose a five-person delegacy to attend the national conference

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The men’s soccer team failed to qualify for three World Cups in the sixties and seventies, and the country’s delegations to the Summer Olympics, in 1960 and in 1964, finished with a medal count outside the top twenty.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
Aside from diplomatic delegations, eligible voters living abroad must fly back to Israel to exercise their democratic right.

— Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2026

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