statesman

Example Sentences

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"Marco Rubio is an outstanding statesman," said Brian Su, 60, a consultant from Chicago.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

That he’d become something, in other words, resembling a statesman.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

Here is the quintessential Westerner about to transform himself from Honest Abe the rail-splitter into Father Abraham, the avuncular statesman capable of handling the looming crisis over disunion and slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Howard Wilkinson, now 82 and a long-time elder statesman of the game, was the last Englishman to lift the title with Leeds United in 1991-92, but in the league's previous guise as the First Division.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

The man who invented Bacon’s cipher was Sir Francis Bacon, an English scientist and statesman who lived in Shakespeare’s day.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield