FOREIGN MINISTER Synonyms: 42 Similar Words

foreign minister

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as in ambassador

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Recent Examples of foreign minister The incident was quickly denounced as a war crime by many governments, but Russia’s foreign minister claimed the strike was justified, due to the presence of soldiers. — Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026 And the country’s foreign minister used surprisingly strong language in explaining the move. — Greg Dixon, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026 Germany’s foreign minister Johann Wadephul also ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Bonn, and the Russian House, a cultural center, in Berlin. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026 Nepal’s foreign minister, Shishir Khanal, said, per the BBC and CNN, that an earthquake may have triggered the initial flash flooding in the area. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreign minister

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Iran’s ambassador to Russia also said in February 2025 that Tehran and Moscow no longer needed SWIFT for bilateral banking relations and were using their own confidential bank-messaging systems.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Speaking of which, our final fancy-breakfast-table showdown of the season, in which Byron and Secretary Mullins manage to win the ever-begrudging Russian ambassador Maxim Petrov over to their plan.

— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of ambassador

Noun

Cuban diplomats present at the assembly then walked out of the room.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Monserrati writes that Italians, and Europeans in general, got many of their ideas about samurai from a 1900 book by Japanese diplomat Nitobe Inazō, a strong supporter of Japan’s colonization of Korea.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of diplomat

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Walpole’s most frequent correspondent was Horace Mann, the British plenipotentiary in Florence, Italy.

— Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
Morris was eventually the United States’ plenipotentiary to France and spent years afterward touring Europe and having affairs there.

— Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 4 June 2019

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One is for an attacker’s server to act as a proxy that’s placed between the Muse user and Meta endpoint.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
The Saudis, then mired in a regional cold war with Iran, viewed the Houthis as an Iranian proxy force that threatened the kingdom’s borders.

— Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

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At the time, Mayor Christopher Clark said that the city was $164 million in debt due to a combination of factors, including a trail of expensive scandals left by predecessor Eric Kellogg, and chronically low tax collection rates.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Postmortem commentaries on the campaign agreed that many factors were at play in Sinclair’s loss — FDR had kept his distance and progressive candidate Raymond Haight siphoned off votes from Sinclair — but Hollywood proudly took credit.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of factor

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An immigration attorney representing the man's family identified him as Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
Some medical professionals have a reputation among attorneys as more defense-friendly, and prosecutors should know better than to pick them even before trial, Stimson told the Washington Examiner.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of attorney

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Between 26 and 35 vessels per day have transited this week, down from the 35 to 40 daily average of the prior eight weeks, according to Dimitris Ampatzidis, maritime risk and compliance manager at Kpler.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
Young texted the Triple-A manager on his way out of Wrigley Field, asking to be put in the lineup that night.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

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