How to Use diplomatic in a Sentence

diplomatic

adjective
  • Negotiators are working to restore full diplomatic relations.
  • Outside of the diplomatic sphere, what do people who watch the show say to you about it?
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • This leaves the diplomatic option but Putin is struggling to be heard.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • The unrest took a toll on Macron’s diplomatic standing.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Not all of the grassroots campaigns have been so diplomatic.
    Max Ufberg, Outside Online, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Held a diplomatic post in Pakistan when her, her car was sprayed with bullets on her way to work.
    cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And the formal end of the court case could be the opening both sides need to forge a diplomatic resolution, too.
    Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • And the formal end of the court case could be the opening both sides need to forge a diplomatic resolution, too.
    Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • With no clear diplomatic solution to the war, and the death toll rising by the day, there has hardly been time to mourn the losses in Ukraine.
    New York Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • At some point in 2021, a diplomatic status quo some seven years in the making fell apart.
    Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Is there a – in the end, is there a diplomatic solution that is still possible?
    ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Americans want the fighting to end and call for diplomatic channels to take hold.
    Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Blinken spoke by phone Tuesday with Lavrov, discussing the diplomatic talks and meetings held last week.
    Matthew Lee, ajc, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Google wants the government to push back on these efforts at the diplomatic level.
    Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Austin and Stoltenberg urged Russia to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
    Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The diplomatic dinner capped the first night of the couple's three-day state visit to the U.K. and Princess Anne, 74, served a style surprise by sporting a new hairstyle.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 10 July 2025
  • None felt Putin's actions to date have suggested the Russian leader is ready to find a diplomatic off-ramp to end the war.
    Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The prospect of such a diplomatic endgame, amid the continuing war in Gaza, remains distant.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In the early months of the war, both Paris and Berlin held out hope of providing some kind of diplomatic exit ramp for Mr. Putin that might bring the fighting to a halt.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Whether these diplomatic efforts will help to deescalate the crisis in any way remains to be seen.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Does anyone think the response would be confined to some grandiose diplomatic protest?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
  • Horner was more diplomatic, believing that one race was not enough of a sample to make a call on his future.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There is a diplomatic angle to this announcement as well, of course.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The cost of capturing Goma — both in human lives and diplomatic blowback — was thought to be too high.
    Emmet Livingstone, The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The attack comes as the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine looms and diplomatic talks to resolve the tense standoff appear stalled.
    Time, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The attack comes as the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine looms and diplomatic talks to resolve the tense standoff appear stalled.
    Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • After the game, Spurs players were diplomatic in discussing the late whistles.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • On June 27 of that year, diplomatic tensions in Europe were at their lowest level in years.
    Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The action is Seoul’s latest diplomatic gesture to its long-time rival neighbor.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Despite claiming the Pretoria Agreement as a diplomatic triumph, the United States did little to enforce it.
    Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2025

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