foreign service

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Cynthia Iglesias Guven worked at the Agriculture Department since 1998, living around the world as a foreign service officer and eventually taking a senior job in Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

And then they tell the career civil servants and foreign service officers and military people, “This is what we want to get at the negotiating table. How do we do that?”

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2025

Not long after that job ended, Merry retired from the foreign service.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2024

Consulate in Paris, though he had no experience in the foreign service.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

We may none of us be alive then," said he, in an unusually dull strain for him: "I half fancy I may exchange into some regiment going on foreign service.

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