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[min-uh-ster] / ˈmɪn ə stər /




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Three years ago, Thailand's then-foreign minister Don Pramudwinai met with Suu Kyi in private for more than an hour, her last known encounter with a foreign envoy since her detention.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Zuma undertook the trip as MK leader but was pictured in front of the South African flag when he met Morocco's foreign minister and brought up Western Sahara.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

“I’ve been very forthright with the prime minister because he can read the polls just as well as I can,” Smith said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Other journalists who will be honored alongside Assi include Hungary's Szabolcs Panyi, who investigated former prime minister Viktor Orban, and Colombia's Estefany Rodriguez, who was detained by US immigration officers while working in March.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

And now here I am, sitting in the church, staring at the white spot on my left foot while the minister talks about God and heaven and angels.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Felix talks sovereign debt with the man finance ministers consult when even they don’t get it.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

On currency markets the yen weakened against the dollar after Friday's rally sparked by a historic joint intervention by Japanese and US authorities, and their finance ministers pledged to support the unit again.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

"He used to say, 'Is this a joke for our ministers to conduct examinations like this?'"

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

He told the ministers that if the U.S. or Israel attacked, Tehran would react forcefully to defend itself and Washington would bear the consequences, according to a readout released by Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

He saw priests, also, and people he assumed were ministers and rabbis and Muslim clergy.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2025

Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2025

Mama Antula was an 18th century laywoman who ministered to the poor and helped keep Jesuit spirituality alive in Argentina after the religious order — to which the pope belongs — was suppressed.

From Seattle Times Feb. 11, 2024

I was sick all day Sunday, ministered to by my girlfriend, who fed me chicken soup and bathed my head with wet washcloths.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2023

As one observer noted, “The Catholics of Chicago are ministered to in twelve different languages.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2025

The Church of England says that faith chaplains have been ministering to schools for centuries.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2024

My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2024

The commission cited Lin’s work ministering to fellow prisoners and translating the Bible into Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2024

Vincent is also discovering a talent for and fulfillment in ministering to the sick and injured.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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