Thesaurus results for EMISSARIES

emissaries

noun

plural of emissary

as in ambassadors

a person sent on a mission to represent another most of the industrialized nations of the world sent emissaries to the conference on global warming

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as in spies

a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country the embassy's staff likely contains at least one emissary who reports to the home country's chief of intelligence

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Recent Examples of emissaries After sharing a meal and laying out gifts, the emissaries would insist that the Indians move to where the animals were plentiful. —

Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026 Past presidents have at times entrusted unusual emissaries to conduct diplomacy. —

Filip Timotija, The Hill, 12 Feb. 2026 The new campus is expected to serve as a regional hub for Jewish religious life, social services and education, as well as a global center for the Lubavitch movement’s worldwide network of emissaries. —

Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2026 Volar, a dating app that launched in late 2023, even let people train an AI version of themselves that flirted with someone else’s AI as a pre‑date screening, like two emissaries handling the small talk before the generals sit down. —

Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025 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

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Arirang — both the show and the group’s new album — sees South Korea’s current cultural ambassadors reckoning with a rich, winding past while deciding where to steer their future.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
Rabbi Kievman together with his wife are the ambassadors of The Rebbe to Highland Lakes.

— Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026