statesman
Example Sentences
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But Nvidia is now in the odd position of having to play elder statesman, if only to temper some of the wilder views about AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
That he’d become something, in other words, resembling a statesman.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
It was originally bought by Khalil Sherif Pasha, widely known as Khalil-Bey, an Ottoman statesman and diplomat posted in Paris and then Vienna.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 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
It was a great honor for Fort Hare to play host to a man acclaimed as a world statesman.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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