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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diplomatist
Noun
  • In Libra, Mercury is a charming diplomat, prioritizing balance, compromise and social harmony.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson’s embrace of the president struck some of his critics in El Salvador and Washington as excessive for a diplomat.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Such was also the focus of the brand’s 2025 ad campaign — the first under Trotter — which pictured the hands of its artisans and brand ambassadors, including Tyler the Creator, Jack Antonoff, and Zadie Smith.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • As expected, the front row was stacked with top global stars from ambassadors ENHYPEN, Sadie Sink, Karina of aespa, as well as Khunpol and Phutatchai of BUS.
    Kristine Kwak, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 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
  • Walpole’s most frequent correspondent was Horace Mann, the British plenipotentiary in Florence, Italy.
    Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
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
  • This week, a number of the continent’s trade emissaries and heads of state have pushed for an expeditious extension of the program’s benefits—namely, duty-free access to the United States market for more than 1,800 products from 32 countries.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
  • When Trump was running for President in 2016, at least one emissary from the campaign suggested to the Emirati rulers that Trump’s deal with Sajwani gave them an in.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Just prior to his China trip, Modi dispatched his foreign minister to Moscow, to boost overall Russia-India trade.
    Tom Nagorski, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • China — the first country to appoint an ambassador to the Taliban-run nation in 2023 — sent its foreign minister, Wang Yi, in August to Kabul to hold talks with Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Diplomatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomatist. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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