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embassy

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as in legation

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Recent Examples of embassy Iranian state media and Iran’s embassy in South Africa mocked the ruse, posting memes of Trump pictured inside of catering carts full of food. — Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 The officials said Issa, who once commanded Syria's military 17th Division, went to the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Friday for some paperwork. — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026 The other applies to children of anyone working in a foreign embassy or representing a foreign government and employees of the United Nations or other international organizations. — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026 The embassy also recognized the Mayor’s Office of Medellín, Colombia’s National Police and Peru’s National Police for their roles in the investigation. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for embassy

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Her husband, King Gojong, subsequently sought refuge in the Russian legation and later proclaimed the Great Korean (Dae Han) Empire in 1897 in a symbolic assertion of sovereignty that failed to halt Japan’s advance.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
King Gojong, seeking to maintain Korean sovereignty, had fled to the Russian legation in Seoul in February 1896 following the assassination of Queen Min by Japanese agents the previous year.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 13 Mar. 2026

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Ray Allensworth, Firefly’s vice president of spacecraft, said those observations revealed the scale of the challenge facing future missions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
The Falcon 9 rocket was launched in early 2025 on a one-way mission to carry lunar landers into deep space.

— Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

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