Examples of diplomat in a Sentence
The President will be meeting with foreign diplomats.
He's a talented architect but a poor diplomat.
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Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Johnson was a prolific author, a musical theater song writer, a U.S. diplomat in Latin America under the Roosevelt administration, the first Black man to sit for the Florida bar and the first executive director of the NAACP.
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Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
His father was an American diplomat, and when the Communists took over China later that year, the family escaped by boat down the Pearl River.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 21 May 2024
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Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
His father was an American diplomat, and when the Communists took over China later that year, the family escaped by boat down the Pearl River.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 21 May 2024
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“Diplomat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diplomat. Accessed 30 May. 2024.
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diplomat
noun
dip·lo·mat
ˈdip-lə-ˌmat 
: a person employed or skilled in diplomacy
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