How to Use diplomatic in a Sentence

diplomatic

adjective
  • Negotiators are working to restore full diplomatic relations.
  • The unrest took a toll on Macron’s diplomatic standing.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Is there a – in the end, is there a diplomatic solution that is still possible?
    ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Americans want the fighting to end and call for diplomatic channels to take hold.
    Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The prospect of such a diplomatic endgame, amid the continuing war in Gaza, remains distant.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • On June 27 of that year, diplomatic tensions in Europe were at their lowest level in years.
    Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Almost all diplomatic missions in Sudan were evacuated in the first weeks of the war.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 17 June 2023
  • Others in the diplomatic community said the use of force is a real option.
    Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The trip set the foundation for diplomatic ties between the two countries seven years later.
    Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, there’s a diplomatic scramble to avert full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Since then, the two countries have ramped up their economic, trade and diplomatic relations – including in the wake of Putin’s war in Ukraine.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The altercation sends tongues wagging in the press about a breakdown in the fragile diplomatic relationship between the US and the UK.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Iraq’s prime minister has cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Quran in that country.
    Ali Jabar and Jari Tanner, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Letters Hugh wrote had to go to a diplomatic address in America, and then on to his parents in Somalia.
    David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The most predictable consequence of the war will be a pause in the process of diplomatic recognition between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Theron has remained diplomatic about Taylor-Joy taking on her Mad Max role while the movie has been in production in recent years.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Blinken had planned to make the trip in February, but the diplomatic chaos surrounding a Chinese spy balloon in U.S. airspace postponed his visit.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • But in his spare time, Mr. Palmer has written four diplomatic thrillers, which gives him an appreciation of both the accurate details and the faux pas.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • The bloc has increased its collective diplomatic effort to pressure the Biden administration to call for a pause or end to the fighting.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The source emphasized that many diplomatic missions in Port-au-Prince do not have the kind of defensive military muscle that the US embassy boasts.
    Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
  • That has subsequently set off a diplomatic row with Moscow which has vowed to challenge the decision.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 23 June 2023
  • Hamas’s big breakthrough was the paroxysm of violence during the second intifada after the diplomatic crisis caused by the failure of the Camp David summit in the summer of 2000.
    Hussein Ibish, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And toward the end of that span came three agreements establishing diplomatic relations with Arab countries; more were likely on the way.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The diplomatic tensions have been inflamed by social media.
    Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The files exposed hidden diplomatic dealings and included revelations about civilian deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Although this will make a diplomatic settlement between Israel and the PLO more difficult to achieve, such an agreement is far more likely to stick.
    Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Is there anyone in the diplomatic community who believes that?
    CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The country, which is bordered by Morocco to the west, closed the airspace when its government severed diplomatic ties with Morocco in 2021 over a series of issues.
    Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Since the ending of diplomatic ties between the United States and the Republic of China in 1979, the substantive relationship between the two has only grown.
    Hou Yu-Ih, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
  • His diplomatic maneuvers may have been important during the Cold War.
    Jianli Yang, National Review, 5 Dec. 2023

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