Thesaurus results for ENVOY

envoy

noun

ˈen-ˌvȯi

as in ambassador

a person sent on a mission to represent another the president sent the secretary of state as his personal envoy to gain the support of the country's allies

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as in deputy

a person who acts or does business for another one of the students was chosen as the club's envoy in meetings with the principal

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Recent Examples of envoy Forwarded from the War Department, the gist was that the envoy refused to serve the president’s wishes. —

Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026 Kabila appointed Gertler special envoy, and the young Israeli began traveling to the US on the president’s behalf. —

Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian and American envoys in Geneva met with representatives from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. —

Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2026 Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev will also travel to Geneva for separate talks with the U.S. on economic cooperation, according to Peskov. —

Illia Novikov, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for envoy

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Davidson is a remarkable ambassador for his disability, helping support others with Tourette’s syndrome through public speaking and other activism.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
The files have led to new criminal investigations in other countries, including of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and former ambassador Peter Mandleson in the United Kingdom.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026