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The President will be meeting with foreign diplomats.
He's a talented architect but a poor diplomat.
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Fewer officers after layoffs and no new diplomat classes means fewer officers to be on the front line conducting interviews.
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Adam Crafton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
In Libra, Mercury is a charming diplomat, prioritizing balance, compromise and social harmony.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Johnson’s embrace of the president struck some of his critics in El Salvador and Washington as excessive for a diplomat.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
As the diplomats in New York recognized, contrary to the claims of Smotrich—and some left-wing critics who have unwittingly accepted his framing—the presence of settlers is not an existential threat to the possibility of territorial compromise.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
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Adam Crafton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
In Libra, Mercury is a charming diplomat, prioritizing balance, compromise and social harmony.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Johnson’s embrace of the president struck some of his critics in El Salvador and Washington as excessive for a diplomat.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
As the diplomats in New York recognized, contrary to the claims of Smotrich—and some left-wing critics who have unwittingly accepted his framing—the presence of settlers is not an existential threat to the possibility of territorial compromise.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Diplomat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diplomat. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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diplomat
noun
dip·lo·mat
ˈdip-lə-ˌmat 
: a person employed or skilled in diplomacy
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