nuncio

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Recent Examples of nuncio After appealing to the papal nuncio and the patriarchate for help organizing an evacuation, a convoy left carrying around 30 residents — mostly families with children — escorted by the Lebanese military. Zoya Awky, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024 Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016. Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024 Nunn’s daughter, Krista Bruckner, wrote in February to the Vatican’s U.S. nuncio or ambassador, Cardinal Christophe Pierre. Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024 Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March. Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for nuncio
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Noun
  • Video games are not just the latest shooter or combat titles released for gaming consuls and PCs.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In the letter Leclerc demanded to enter the port while denying that in sending these troops, part of the largest expedition to ever sail from France, the first consul intended to reinstate slavery.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This was the case last month at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which regulates pollution from the international shipping fleet, where US diplomats acted in concert with major oil-producing nations to scuttle what would have been the world’s first carbon tax.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The move, widely seen as an abandonment of long-standing arms control traditions, has alarmed diplomats and security analysts worldwide.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.
    Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • The impact of the storm was worsened by clogged waterways in an already flood-prone area, and an apparent lack of understanding of early warnings, Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV, deputy administrator for the Philippines Office of Civil Defense told local media.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Darbin Wofford, deputy director of health care for the centrist Democratic group Third Way, said even if there’s an agreement that reopens the government without a subsidy extension, Republicans already own the consequences.
    Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There are alternative sources for jobs data, such as ADP’s private-sector payrolls and proxies produced by the Chicago Fed, which Goolsbee oversees, but few good ways to track consumer prices.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Marvel entertainment chairman was a major force behind his Palm Beach neighbor Nelson Peltz’s proxy fight at Disney in 2023 that aimed to make changes at the studio and claim a board seat for Peltz.
    Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • However, papal legates—diplomatic representatives—continue their external functions.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.
    Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022

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“Nuncio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuncio. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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