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legation

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as in embassy

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Recent Examples of legation 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, 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 Flags at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations will also be flown at half-staff. — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025 But after about a month, his typing skills landed him a job as a typist at the American legation in Stockholm, DiGeorge said. — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 The Japanese government promptly purchased more than 100 copies of Yardley’s book, sending it to embassies and legations to encourage them to strengthen their codes. — Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025 Perle not only greeted them but invited them to dinner that night with the legation's employees. — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025

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Days after he was hospitalized, on June 17, the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, released a photograph of Chao seated with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng before a painting of the Great Wall in Beijing.

— Gabrielle Banks, USA Today, 10 July 2026
China is planning a gigantic embassy in London, which will include secret rooms buried next to sensitive communications cables.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 8 July 2026

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Brown served as a Navy pilot with more than 100 combat missions in Vietnam, and he was recently diagnosed with a debilitating disease for which the Department of Veterans Affairs has approved benefits, his defense attorney wrote.

— Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Meanwhile, Flanq will provide autonomous maritime technologies, mission software, AI autonomy, and open capability architectures.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026

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