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
  • In the early months of the war, both Paris and Berlin held out hope of providing some kind of diplomatic exit ramp for Mr. Putin that might bring the fighting to a halt.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Does anyone think the response would be confined to some grandiose diplomatic protest?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 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
  • Arab and American envoys have voiced hopes for their diplomatic push to reach a cease-fire-for-hostage-release deal.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • And yet such an example comes not from a Biblical episode but from a diplomatic one.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Now, the Taliban have adopted the former diplomatic enclave as their own.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • One source told the Guardian that diplomatic efforts are being made to urge Turkmenistan to cut its methane emissions.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 May 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
  • During the past nine months—arguably the most consequential for the Middle East in decades—Russia has been on the diplomatic sidelines.
    Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • The two of them soon embark on a high octane adventure set against a backdrop of diplomatic tension and Christmas.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 Apr. 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
  • What is clear, the Jeddah meet and the back channel diplomacy buys diplomatic space and time to develop an off ramp that has a least a little traction for now.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Those two countries agreed to restore their diplomatic ties after years of tensions.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Saudi Arabia broke off ties with Iran in 2016 after protesters stormed its diplomatic posts in Iran and set fire to its embassy in Tehran.
    Henry Austin, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • In the late 2010s, with a straining diplomatic relationship, China started not renewing contracts on their end.
    Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But Israeli patience for a diplomatic solution appears to be exhausted.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024

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