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consul

[kon-suhl] / ˈkɒn səl /
NOUN
representative
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He arrives in New York this week for a visit I am arranging as Israel’s consul general.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Tyler attended Groton with the newly appointed American consul in Istanbul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

He will visit four Indian cities, beginning in Kolkata, home to one of the oldest US diplomatic posts -- which got its first consul in 1792, just 16 years after Washington's independence.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Presently the consul himself came in to greet them.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

One day after Levine's beating, settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats including the French and Belgian consuls general in Jerusalem as they went through the town of Taybeh in the West Bank on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

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

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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