dignitary
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He offers Gruel a lazy thumbs-up, accepts the chef’s joke about cooking for a dignitary and immediately turns to the camera to recite the show’s mission statement.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
If she enters the race, she could face off against a DSA dignitary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Almost certainly you've got a major local dignitary making themselves at home here," he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
“I need to go in the exact way that a foreign dignitary would go,” he insists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
“I’d so much hoped . . .” he stammeringly repeated, looking up at the great dignitary with pleading and distracted eyes.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
He believed the White House needed a grand ballroom that could seat hundreds of dignitaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Barton continues to tour nationwide, speaking at hundreds of conferences and events a year, including July’s Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, along with Johnson and other conservative dignitaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Gaza City, community elders, mokhtars, local dignitaries and civil defense crews gathered Tuesday for a mass funeral after the recovery effort that was accomplished with a single excavator and simple hand tools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Scotland's First Minister John Swinney and First Minister of Wales Rhun ap Iorwerth were among the dignitaries in the royal box for a show that lasted two hours and 20 minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
These fugitive dignitaries are both from the Batetela tribe and learned French in mission schools, but have no inkling of how to talk to the Kwango tribesmen who fish the rivers east of Léopoldville.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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