statesman

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 veteran linebacker is likely playing in his final NFL season, but he still enjoys leading by example and being an elder statesman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

The abrupt exits have frazzled some of the city’s elder statesmen, chagrined politicians—and prompted some chief executives to make not-so-subtle digs at their former neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Military heroes can be depicted on horseback clutching the accoutrements of war, statesmen shown gesturing dramatically in mid-oration, and saints and clerics rendered awash in revelation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The elder statesmen of proto punk isn’t just another act on the Coachella bill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

The Compromise of 1790 is most famous for averting a political crisis that many statesmen of the time considered a threat to the survival of the infant republic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis