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Before departing Washington on Monday, Rubio said he was open to the possibility of a sideline meeting with China's top diplomat Wang Yi, who will also be in Manila.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Some of this is geography,” said Alan Eyre, a former senior American diplomat in Jordan who is a fellow at the Middle East Institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
But as one career diplomat told me, Delhi wasn't particularly "familiar" with the revolving cast of prime ministers over the past decade either.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
A real diplomat, that Brooklyn-born, Britain-raised American by birthright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Though the sentence may be beyond salvation, passivizing the relative clause would be a place to start: the former United Nations diplomat who has been tapped by protesters demanding Mr. Morsi’s ouster.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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As foreign minister, Szijjarto was known for his combative approach towards European diplomats and his frequent visits to Russia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Mojtaba signaled to Iranian diplomats that they could give it a try but it won’t go anywhere,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Chinese diplomats told me the staging wasn’t meant to belittle Putin; viewed from the front, they said, the two figures take roughly equal share of the picture’s frame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
A retired Air Force Reserve colonel and longtime foreign policy hawk, he spent decades cultivating relationships not only across Capitol Hill but with world leaders, diplomats and advocacy organizations.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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