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delegation

[del-i-gey-shuhn] / ˌdɛl ɪˈgeɪ ʃən /




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"I am not aware of the delegation that went," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

This year, for the first time in nearly a decade, a low-key US delegation is also due to participate in the forum.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The top Chinese delegate this year is a one-star major general and professor at Beijing’s National Defense University—a further step down from last year when the university’s vice president led the delegation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Talks on a possible deal got a boost last summer after Carney and Canada’s energy minister, one of his former Goldman Sachs colleagues, traveled to Germany with a Canadian trade delegation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

This was Adams’s apparently impulsive decision, announced on February 18, 1799, to send another peace delegation to France.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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