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consuls

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plural of consul

as in attachés

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The top diplomats for Egypt and Iran discussed efforts to bring Tehran and Washington back to the negotiating table to settle the war, Egypt's foreign ministry said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2026
Egypt tries to revive talks The top diplomats for Egypt and Iran discussed efforts to bring Tehran and Washington back to the negotiating table to end the war, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2026

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Officers and deputies reached the scene in roughly 10 minutes and at that point heard gunfire from the back of the residence, the police department said.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2026
In 2019, deputies arrived at a Denver-area STEM school while shooting was still going on inside, the local sheriff said at the time.

— Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

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Its economy is in shambles, its proxies have been decimated by Israel and its allies in Iraq have been ousted.

— Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026
On Wall Street, the founders observed how institutional investors sought to trade such uncertain binary outcomes as Brexit and the 2016 presidential election through proxies such as swaps, options, and other risk curves.

— Carson Becker, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026

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As colonial administrators and missionaries had penetrated the highlands, the practice of cannibalism had ended and kuru had begun to recede.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
The church’s origins date to the arrival of Christian missionaries in Mombasa in 1844, and its membership has long represented a diverse cross section of Kenyan society, with members of various ethnicities and social strata.

— Stephanie TriplettAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

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