diplomatist

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Recent Examples of diplomatist The trouble, rather, is that even our top foreign-policy experts and our most sophisticated diplomatists are creatures of our own cultural heritage and intellectual environment. Nicholas Eberstadt, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
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Noun
  • Officials from both countries were expected to hold the one-on-one meeting followed by delegation talks and a joint press conference, with U.S. and allied diplomats monitoring whether the Alaska summit produced a cease-fire framework or specific commitments on sanctions and territorial issues.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • No longer encumbered by the demands put on the country's top diplomat, Kuleba has been speaking frankly on Kyiv's situation and outlook since departing his former role.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jisoo officially joined Self-Portrait as an ambassador in March 2024, prior to her starring roles in the 2024 and 2025 pre-fall campaigns.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Addison Harris, bought the property in 1880.
    John Tuohy, IndyStar, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • All empires have, like the Roman Empire, been… The American System and the World Organization On the day our plenipotentiaries exchange their full powers, an immortal date will be inscribed in American diplomatic history.
    Ezequiel Padilla, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
  • These succeeded to the extent that a meeting was brought about in 1880 between plenipotentiaries of the three belligerents and the American Ministers accredited to those countries on board an American naval vessel in the harbor of Arica.
    Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011
Noun
  • However, papal legates—diplomatic representatives—continue their external functions.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.
    Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Other top administration lunch guests include chief of staff Susie Wiles, Trump's top foreign emissary Steve Witkoff and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's shock-and-awe executive order bonanza.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Ahead of the deadline, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate mogul and cryptocurrency trader who has turned into Trump's de facto roaming emissary, is expected to visit Russia on Aug. 6.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Iran, China and Russia had also signaled closer coordination on government positions and actions when their top diplomats met in China a week earlier on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit of foreign ministers.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The foreign minister did not name the woman, who has also been expelled from her university in the northern French city of Lille.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Diplomatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomatist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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