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- most of the industrialized nations of the world sent emissaries to the conference on global warming
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- the embassy's staff likely contains at least one emissary who reports to the home country's chief of intelligence
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- agent,
- asset,
- intelligencer,
- mole,
- operative,
- spook,
- spy,
- undercover
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“Emissary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emissary. Accessed 21 May. 2022.
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The first known use of emissary was in 1607
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