foreign service

Example Sentences

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After graduation, he opted for Wall Street rather than the foreign service, journalism, or computer science.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

At one point in February, Marocco tried ordering the immediate return of foreign service officers stationed abroad.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

For the past three years, he says, India has maintained contact with the Taliban through a foreign service diplomat.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

Instead, he filed it on the “dissent channel,” a forum that embassies created during the Vietnam War that let any foreign service officer express his personal view to higher-ups.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2024

He offered to send me from Cambridge to an academy in Germany, to fit me for foreign service: Well judging that a cannon ball was a fair and quick provision for a poor relation.

From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John