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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
White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would be part of the delegations, according to four of the sources.
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Gordon Lubold, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026
Others included peace missions special envoy Steve Witkoff, whose son Andrew died in 2011 from an opioid overdose.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2026
Egypt and Qatar have moved to mediate, with senior officials holding calls with Iranian leaders and Trump’s Middle East envoy in an effort to ease tensions.
—Nik Popli, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
Washington’s top envoy in Beijing signaled business ties between the world’s two biggest economies are on more solid ground after their trade war truce last October.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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Gordon Lubold, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026
Others included peace missions special envoy Steve Witkoff, whose son Andrew died in 2011 from an opioid overdose.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2026
Egypt and Qatar have moved to mediate, with senior officials holding calls with Iranian leaders and Trump’s Middle East envoy in an effort to ease tensions.
—Nik Popli, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
Washington’s top envoy in Beijing signaled business ties between the world’s two biggest economies are on more solid ground after their trade war truce last October.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for envoy
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Mandelson, a former Cabinet minister, ambassador and elder statesman of the governing Labour Party, has not been arrested or charged.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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Starmer has apologized to Epstein’s victims and pledged to release public documents that will show Mandelson lied when he was being vetted for the ambassador’s job.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Anthony Anderson, 40, died when two sheriff’s deputies opened fire on him outside a house in the Fairmont Terrace neighborhood between San Leandro and Hayward, according to his mother, Kristina Anderson.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Rodgers, a former deputy chief of strategic initiatives in Dallas ISD, came to DeSoto ISD in 2022, at a time when the district needed stability.—
Silas Allen,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The leadership role was approved without objection during a meeting of the commission, where delegates adopted agenda items and organizational decisions by consensus.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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The next morning, the delegates insisted that a photograph be made to commemorate the nomination.—
Harold Holzer,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Fox News Digital previously reached out to Ferguson’s representative for comment about the DOJ's release.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Neither representatives for the musician nor football star immediately responded to requests for comment on Tuesday.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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The most public sign of tension was the South African mining minister’s criticism of DR Congo for signing its recent minerals deal with Washington.—
Alexis Akwagyiram,
semafor.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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In addition to Brooks’s attack on Sumner, Quincy noted that a Tennessee minister had been forced to leave his church after denouncing the beating of an enslaved person, and a Virginia politician had been barred from returning home after attending a northern political convention.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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He was also sanctioned by the European Union in January 2019 following a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, which the British government said was carried out by GRU agents to poison a former Russian spy.—
Anna Chernova,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Right now, enforcement agents are often using administrative warrants, or internal documents signed by immigration officers that authorize specific arrests but not searches.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Groft’s attorneys in November expressed doubt as to his mental competency, but a judge deemed Groft competent after an evaluation.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Simpson's defense attorneys and prosecutors with the state paint two very different pictures of Kendrick Simpson.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Envoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/envoy. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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