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embassy

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as in legation

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Recent Examples of embassy According to the Russian embassy, one of the women shown in the AP footage, Marianna Vishegirskaya, an Instagram blogger, was an actor and the entire incident was fake. — Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026 The Chinese embassy in Singapore did not respond to request for comment. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 During the visit he was pictured with local anti-vaccine activists and staff members of the US embassy. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026 Overlapping conversations in Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Mandarin and Pashto — plus several others — bleed into the hallways in a cacophony reminiscent of an airport or embassy. — Sacbee.com, 28 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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And a 26-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin arrived aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle, which had sailed from England nearly four years earlier on a mission to chart South America.

— Michele Metych Britannica Editors Sep. 14, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Sep. 2026
For the past four years, the Kremlin’s mission has been to convince Russians that the war is anything but an emergency.

— MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

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