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attaché

[a-ta-shay, at-uh-, uh-tash-ay] / æ tæˈʃeɪ, ˌæt ə-, əˈtæʃ eɪ /
NOUN
attaché case
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“It’s a five alarm emergency that’s dividing North America from Europe,” said John Foreman, a former U.K. defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

China posted a military attaché to the country for the first time in 2024.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025

The German government made that offer also to the Israeli military attaché in Berlin, Boris Pistorius told reporters on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

As an indication of warming ties, the Israeli military earlier on Monday appointed a colonel as defence attaché to Morocco.

From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2023

He was military attaché there at the time of the Berlin Congress, when St. Vallier was Ambassador, and has many friends.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

Military attachés, too, from a variety of embassies are observing the drill from a viewing platform.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

More information would be provided at a briefing for military attachés, he added.

From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2022

In the early 1950s, the US government, in particular the Department of State and the CIA, tried using independent scientists as attachés — actually, spies.

From Nature ● Oct. 30, 2018

High-level defectors he reached for interviews described embassy officials and military attachés smuggling ivory from Angola, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as trafficking rhino horn from South Africa and Mozambique.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 16, 2017

“Perhaps I’d better not mention the name of my informant; but there can be no harm in saying that he is one of the attachés of the Embassy of a great Power, a friendly Power.”

From The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham




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