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consul

[kon-suhl] / ˈkɒn səl /
NOUN
representative
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The honorary consul of Poland in Northern Ireland, Jerome Mullen, said he had never experienced such a tragedy in his 18 years in the job.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

The consul general had been responding to a Times editorial supporting a boycott of products made with cotton produced in the Xinjiang region of China due to the use of forced labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Yaki Dayan, Israel's former consul general in Los Angeles and an expert on US-Israeli relations, said that Israel's GDP has more than doubled since the current aid agreement was signed in 2016.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

The museum contacted Ankara because the piece "had been donated by the wife of a US consul general who served in Istanbul in the 1940s", she said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

The first thing she and Farder Coram did ashore was to visit the house of the witch consul.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

After 367 BCE, one of the two consuls, the highest officials in the republic, had to be a plebian.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Thursday’s summit was attended by consuls and other senior officials from G-7 nations and the European Union, and lawmakers and representatives from economic organizations, labor unions and other organizations.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Once consuls are in place, the memo said, they would remain accountable to the governments they represent.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022

But the vast majority of governments have failed to strengthen oversight or press to reform the international law that protects thousands of honorary consuls worldwide, a new review found.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022

Despite the emergency, two foreign consuls were playing tennis on the grass courts out back.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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