Thesaurus results for EMISSARY

emissary

noun

ˈe-mə-ˌser-ē

Definition of emissary

as in ambassador

a person sent on a mission to represent another most of the industrialized nations of the world sent emissaries to the conference on global warming

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as in spy

a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country the embassy's staff likely contains at least one emissary who reports to the home country's chief of intelligence

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Recent Examples of emissary The president’s top-two emissaries also happen to be the highest-profile potential candidates to succeed him. — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026 The water being is an emissary of a much larger civilization, and the team’s survival ultimately depends on their halting interactions with it. — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026 In 2021, Biden emissaries turned to the Roman Catholic Church for help, former Biden-era officials told USA TODAY. — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 13 May 2026 Expect emissaries from the ever-changing world of media. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for emissary

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Noun

Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz are ambassadors for Oura, the USTA’s first official wearable partner.

— Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The elder Dean was one of college basketball’s great ambassadors, working for Converse from 1959-87 while becoming the SEC’s signature television voice.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of ambassador

Noun

Yet the Department of Military Counterintelligence—formally responsible for detecting foreign spies within the armed forces—has also been involved in many cases, reflecting the growing dependence of Russian industries on military contracts.

— Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
The Bourne Identity Teens who enjoy action movies and spy capers will be all about the first film in the Bourne movie series, which came out in 2002.

— Kara Nesvig, Parents, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of spy

Noun

Ten years ago, Frank Lowenstein, then the United States special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, presented President Barack Obama with maps of settlements by Israeli Jews in the occupied West Bank.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Former Vice President Mike Pence and ex-special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg were also in Kyiv for meetings.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of envoy

Noun

Rogue OpenAI agents’ unprecedented coordination during the Hugging Face attack significantly increases the risk of AI escaping human control, analysts said, days after investigators released a bombshell report into the incident.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 30 Aug. 2026
This was followed by the creation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) on July 22 to handle espionage and resistance agents, and the first raids were already being carried out.

— David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of agent

Noun

Hutton said Calumet College regularly sends representatives to the school to monitor it, including its governance system and academic programs.

— Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Fifty-one contestants — one representative from each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia — vied for the crown.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of representative

Noun

Filming has now begun on location in Malta, with Winstone starring as Alan ‘Razor’ Sharp, a former SAS operative haunted by a botched mission in the 1990s that left his reputation in tatters and his best friend dead.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026
The six-part series sees Winstone play Razor, a former SAS operative haunted by a botched mission in the ‘90s that left his reputation in tatters and his best friend dead.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of operative

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This came before Nataraja played delegates the trailer of The Great British Bake Off‘s seventeenth season, which is due to launch in coming weeks.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
But the process falls apart when a company has to scale up, delegate, or is mostly remote.

— K.H. Koehler, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of delegate

Noun

The groundbreaking ceremony for the facility was held in the national capital on Tuesday attended by India’s civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
Flory Mapamboli, a Congolese lawmaker and former treasury adviser to the finance minister, said the conditions had already been met for some financing, but the money was still not being disbursed.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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