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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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 See pictures from the funeral below, along with a list of the foreign emissaries who attended. — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 9 Sep. 2026 According to the news release, the school is also expanding its participation in the Shinshinim program—two new young emissaries from Israel will join the school for a year before their army service. — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026 Sick of It All were NYHC’s most welcoming emissaries, and their mouthpiece was Lou Koller, whose death was announced Friday. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2026 The president’s top-two emissaries also happen to be the highest-profile potential candidates to succeed him. — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026 In 2021, Biden emissaries turned to the Roman Catholic Church for help, former Biden-era officials told USA TODAY. — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 13 May 2026 Expect emissaries from the ever-changing world of media. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026 The overconfidence of the pro-Trump push in country music pre- and postelection is backfiring on many of its most enthusiastic emissaries. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026 The ruling marks a notable victory for emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who have often been met with legal challenges when establishing centers. — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026

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In every other Veronica Beard store globally, customers can work with store ambassadors for the customization process with follow up appointments in store to ensure fit.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
There’s also no question the Ballon d’Or voters, made up of writers from France Football and L’Equipe, alongside international soccer ambassadors, have a European bias.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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Five categories of spies are described, and espionage is treated as essential to providing rulers and commanders with the foreknowledge needed to make informed strategic decisions.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Beyond bioweapons, Russia spies Anthropic also uncovered a Russian espionage operation that used Claude to automate much of its cyber campaign.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

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Unlike most Western democracies in which citizens abroad can mail in a ballot, Israel doesn’t allow absentee voting; only diplomats and official envoys can vote from outside the country.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Iroquois envoys regularly visited colonists, both to size up their ambitious rivals and to give advice on how to survive on an American continent where Native American culture dominated.

— Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026

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According to the report, 1,250 Hezbollah operatives are active in Germany.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
In his view, Party operatives, who tend to be young, coastal, and college-educated, put their own policy preferences ahead of the median voter, who is a white fiftysomething with a high-school education living in the suburbs.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

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While there were humanitarian appeals and evidence that public authorities were seeking alternative accommodation, per the outlet, Duro said Urbagestion’s representatives refused to suspend the eviction.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
The precise details of what happened there are obscure, and representatives for Beck did not respond to my requests for comment.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of representatives

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Let agents manage preparation, monitoring, first drafts and coordination, and reserve for yourself the work a model cannot touch.

— Lital Marom, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
This breakthrough has led market participants to view consumer-facing AI agents as truly entering a phase of large-scale adoption.

— , CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of agents

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Three weeks earlier 10 Black students, escorted by local ministers past hundreds of white protesters, were turned away by the Arkansas National Guard—at the behest of the state’s governor, Orval Faubus.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026
Private sector leaders are hopeful about Shah’s administration and the surge of young people in leadership, including the majority of Shah’s ministers, who are under 40.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026

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