delegation
Example Sentences
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In addition, a U.S. congressional delegation recently visited Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Neither was there any reporting on whether the congressional delegation was lodging at either of Trump’s two resorts in Scotland.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
In December 1979, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs led a delegation of his engineers into Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, the legendary PARC, for a demonstration of PARC’s most closely held inventions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
They rolled out the red carpet last summer, when technical director Jason Wilcox was part of the delegation that spoke to Gabriel with a sales pitch that kept the Londoner in the north-west.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
At the Democratic National Convention in 2016, 102-year-old Jerry Emmett of Prescott, Arizona, announced that the Arizona delegation was casting fifty-one of its eighty-five votes for Hillary Clinton for president.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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