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chargé

[chahrj] / tʃɑrdʒ /
NOUN
chargé d'affaires
Synonyms


charge










VERB
ask a price
Synonyms




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As Petro was traveling to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s interim president, met with U.S. chargé d’affaires Laura Dogu to talk about the future.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

Her new position as chargé d’affaires augments a career that includes senior roles in hostage recovery for the FBI and as ambassador to Nicaragua and Honduras during periods characterized by social and political volatility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

On Thursday, the U.S. named Laura F. Dogu, a former ambassador to Honduras and Nicaragua, as the new chargé d’affaires for the State Department’s Venezuela Affairs Unit, which is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Estonia's foreign ministry said it had summoned Russia's chargé d'affaires and said it was treating the move as a "provocative border incident".

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

We may agree that the sympathy of the chargé d'affaires with Bismarck's ingenuous contrition was ill-bestowed.

From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller

The government's code sets the maximum parking charge at £100, or £60 if paid within a fortnight.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Arthur and her husband fled to Pennsylvania after his 1978 indictment where he died in 2004 without having been brought back to Ohio to face the charge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

The FBI is exploring adding an economic espionage charge against former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a law-enforcement official said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

A former studio engineer for Eminem pleads guilty to a charge of criminal copyright infringement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Pickwick said that the German doctor in charge of the prison hospital was a humane man who occasionally arranged a medical discharge.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

No charges have been announced, and investigators have not publicly established that Markle Sr. possessed the alleged material.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The sector's code already said charges should be reduced to £20 under those circumstances.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Villa supporters provided constant reminders to the travelling fans of their side being "cheats", and the vitriol faced following the guilty verdict of the financial charges may be beginning to weigh on the players' minds.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

It is possible the probe won’t lead to any additional charges, the official said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

He was unaffiliated with any street gang, and we are confident he was unarmed and innocent of the charges being leveled against him.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

He said France and other EU countries are thinking about “having a common site to several European countries where our ambassadors or chargés d’affaires can be present” in Afghanistan.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

In some countries, high-ranking government officials will not meet with anyone short of a formal U.S. ambassador, shunning the chargés d’affaires who have taken over in the interim.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

Also, a large and nervous party of fugitives of mixed nationalities and professions––consuls, chargés, attachés, and innocent, agitated citizens––was summarily grabbed and ordered into indefinite limbo.

From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The allowance of a quarter's salary to ministers and chargés d'affaires to defray their expenses home.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 3: Andrew Jackson, 1st term by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

Thus the ambassador longest at Paris precedes all the other ambassadors at Paris; and the same rule prevails with the ministers and chargés, according to their respective gradations of rank.

From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

“You’re dealing with 80-to-120,000-pound pieces that you’ve got to load on flatbeds,” said Luke Wray, the Paladin executive charged with overseeing the company’s supplies of rare earths and other critical minerals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The program would not be funded by taxpayers, but instead by the interest charged to borrowers on their down payment loans, also referred to as second mortgages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

That is why Bedford Mohali has set its fees at roughly half those charged by other British schools.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Betancourt has not been charged in any country.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

This awesome display of flashing color is caused by charged particles streaming out from the sun and colliding with atoms in the atmosphere above the North Pole.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“I had 6 miles of range left when I rolled into the charging station where we met,” Cheetham told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Readers challenged our columnist to take an affordable electric car on a route with less-than-ideal charging options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Right now, credit cards are charging around 22%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

E-bike rental company Lime has said its bikes are "not for jousting" after footage of two riders dressed as knights charging at each other in an east London park circulated over the weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

They were trying to shore up their allies and keep them charging across the bridge.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan


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