foreign minister

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Recent Examples of foreign minister Russia’s state news agency TASS, quoting Botswana’s foreign minister, also reported that the country plans to open an embassy in Moscow soon. semafor.com, 5 Jan. 2026 Then came the job of foreign minister, from 2014 to 2017, as well as a role heading the pro-Maduro Constituent Assembly. Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 5 Jan. 2026 Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said that 13 Italian citizens were injured and six remained missing by midday Friday. Jamey Keaten, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026 Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Monday alleged that Ukraine had fired 91 drones at Putin’s official residence in the Novgorod region, located between Moscow and St Petersburg. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign minister
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Noun
  • Patrick O’Donnell is a paint expert and international brand ambassador for Farrow & Ball, a paint and wallpaper manufacturer.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Israeli media identified the official as Tzachi Braverman, Netanyahu’s chief of staff, who is expected to start as the next ambassador to the United Kingdom in the coming months.
    Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The administration has quietly directed diplomats to press allies on restricting inflows, enhancing deportation mechanisms, and ending policies perceived as favoring migrants over citizens.
    Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Although Europe is reliant on the US for military hardware in the short term, Daniel Fried, a veteran US diplomat, told CNN that the continent has more leverage than is commonly believed.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • All empires have, like the Roman Empire, been… The American System and the World Organization On the day our plenipotentiaries exchange their full powers, an immortal date will be inscribed in American diplomatic history.
    Ezequiel Padilla, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Walpole’s most frequent correspondent was Horace Mann, the British plenipotentiary in Florence, Italy.
    Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Those competing interpretations of Saudi intent are now colliding most visibly in Yemen, where the Saudi-Emirati alliance originally formed to counter Iran’s Houthi proxy.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Ellison said Paramount would nominate its own slate of directors, waging a proxy fight against its larger rival.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His reckless decision to escalate the aggression and number of immigration agents is a causal factor, regardless of the outcome of an investigation into this tragic death.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers revealed that one of the key factors that enabled Despotopulos and his team to make these first-ever experimental measurements was access to the world’s highest-energy laser system, located at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF).
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Star reached out to both Rice’s agent and an attorney who has represented him in the past, as well as the NFL, on the matter.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • An attorney representing the bakery says there's a reason the owners live and work on the property.
    Austen Erblat, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The trouble, rather, is that even our top foreign-policy experts and our most sophisticated diplomatists are creatures of our own cultural heritage and intellectual environment.
    Nicholas Eberstadt, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • To address the problem, water managers many years ago lowered the levels, but the tree islands never recovered, leaving ghosts of islands that lack the elevation to support the majestic hardwoods found in other parts of the Everglades, such as cypress, pond apple and pop ash trees.
    Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Krupp said at the time that the restructuring would affect middle- and upper-level managers, not front-line caseworkers.
    Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Foreign minister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreign%20minister. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.

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