statesman
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Now they have just one player in his 30s: That’s 30-year-old Kevon Looney, who smiled at the thought that he is suddenly the elder statesman of the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Sowing behind-the-scenes stories about how he’s actually approaching it like a responsible statesman could play to his advantage.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
In a villa on the Bay of Naples, a dying general and statesman, only 50 years old, begins to record his extraordinarily eventful life in the short time left to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The club have mainly targeted players aged 20 and under from abroad, having already recruited Jaouen, Sean Steur, Bazoumana Toure and Aladji Bamba, so Hornicek will feel like something of an elder statesman in comparison.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
He is a worthy successor to his great friend and it is no accident that his great and intelligent leadership has made him our leading statesman.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
It has been enriched by artists, thinkers, statesmen, scientists, warriors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
If Gandhi elevated the hunger strike into a moral weapon, BR Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen, was deeply sceptical of it in independent India.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
But the two statesmen had different conceptions of governance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
The elder statesmen of proto punk isn’t just another act on the Coachella bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
But it also exposed the incompatible expectations concerning America's future that animated these same statesmen.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
