consuls

noun

plural of consul
as in attachés

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  1. diplomats
  2. deputies
  3. proxies
  4. missionaries
Noun
  • Israeli police are also investigating an attack by Israeli settlers on European diplomats Saturday in another West Bank village.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • In Saturday’s attack in the village of Taybeh, settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of diplomats
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  • Fourteen sheriff’s office deputies flanked the courtroom and filled in the spaces between Collins’ family and the defendants’ parents while a clerk read the verdict aloud.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The deputies will be compensated at $75 per hour for a minimum of a four-hour coverage period.
    — Glory Reitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of deputies
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  • Cryptography is embedded throughout applications, identity platforms, APIs, cloud services, firewalls, load balancers, proxies, certificate authorities, VPNs and software libraries.
    — Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Britain says some of them have ended ​up acting as unwitting proxies for foreign states such as Iran or Russia.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of proxies
Noun
  • Elsewhere near Ensenada, Mexican soldiers used helicopters to rescue 32 people, including 13 minors, from Rancho Genesis, a camp for orphans staffed by missionaries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Rousseau lamented that accounts of these societies came mainly from merchants, sailors, soldiers and missionaries.
    — Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of missionaries
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“Consuls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consuls. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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