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Recent Examples of diplomacy Canvas’ co-chief executive officer Devin Gilmarti spoke of the importance of fashion diplomacy and the idea that creation can unite nations. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025 Envoys Kushner and Witkoff pursued regional diplomacy as Israel and Hamas reaffirmed the fragile truce. Staff, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow has also become less interested in diplomacy now that the US has refused to provide Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles. Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025 In 1962, the Soviet Union began the secret deployment of nuclear missiles to Cuba under the cover of reassuring diplomacy. Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diplomacy
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Noun
  • Two top event planners share the modern dinner party manners every guest—and host—should know.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Good manners involves consideration for others, which sometimes means not spending too much time thinking about their behavior.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sure, this man might lack tact at times, but his baseball bona fides are undeniable.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Those moves might not have paid off with a postseason berth, but that doesn’t mean the Mets’ front office will change tact.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This connection would become increasingly important over the twentieth century, as the rapid development of technological infrastructure created ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous sensitivities to geomagnetic storms.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Big beauty business moguls get skin hang-ups and sensitivities too, and have to work at their skin just like the rest of us to enjoy that celebrity glow.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a quixotic gallantry to appealing to a saner conservative and looking ahead to a post-Trump American politics.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Queen Elizabeth later awarded Beaton the George's Cross, Britain’s highest civilian award for gallantry, for his role in saving her daughter’s life, and bestowed honors on Callender, as well as the other policemen and onlookers who intervened.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Each country chooses its own film to submit for Oscar consideration, and in Israel, the winner of best film at the Ophir Awards is automatically the country’s submission.
    Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But some property owners have signed a petition opposing the initiative, which could keep it from going to the Common Council for consideration.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Diplomacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diplomacy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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