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diplomates
n. (plural of diplomate English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: diplomate)
Usage examples of "diplomates".
When word reached him (during his wife's absence) that Bray had passed me for flunking his own diplomates, Rexford determined to follow my advice to the letter: to purge himself of every trace of immoderation and renounce absolutely all traffic with flunkèdness -- if his administration could not pass the "Open Book Test," let it fall!
They had no notion of how to play the political games human diplomates took for granted.