How to Use diplomacy in a Sentence

diplomacy

noun
  • She has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy.
  • This is a situation that calls for tactful diplomacy.
  • The government avoided a war by successfully resolving the issues through diplomacy.
  • For more on pandas and panda diplomacy, check out our special deep dive episode from earlier this summer.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The benefit of new arms control treaties would be to save money in the long run, and also encourage diplomacy to resolve disputes.
    William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The influence of diplomacy and politics in this realm explains this difference.
    Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The State Department says that even something as simple as a change in font can be a matter of diplomacy and send an important signal to the world.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Biden, meanwhile, is threading a delicate balance of trying to show strong leadership and strong diplomacy with a foreign adversary.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • International politics and diplomacy keep the atmosphere here calm and relaxed.
    Adam Groffman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Plus, triangulating on a number of these foreign policy, diplomacy issues.
    NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The war was won on the battlefield (and by the French navy) and Franklin’s diplomacy moved all the pieces and the peace into place.
    Craig Bruce Smith, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And with that, an era of panda diplomacy will end, at least for now.
    Edward Wong Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Scott: Tell me more about the diplomacy element of a World’s Fair.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 May 2023
  • The point of diplomacy This isn’t to say that diplomacy and face-to-face talks are pointless.
    Michael Beckley, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But diplomacy takes two to tango, or, in this case, three.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • For all his shift-change bonhomie and diplomacy on the dais, O’Brien can be an abrasive force in the office.
    Nick Tabor, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • Consider their point of view on the 19th when diplomacy wins.
    Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The week-long pause in fighting and release of dozens of hostages, Thomas-Greenfield said, was the result of U.S. diplomacy.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Kissinger has been at the forefront of U.S. diplomacy for longer than most Americans have been alive.
    CBS News, 27 May 2023
  • Hamas' top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, traveled to Cairo for talks on the war, part of a flurry of diplomacy.
    Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
  • He is engaged in high- level, high stakes diplomacy for a long time.
    CBS News, 16 July 2023
  • While in London, Jill Biden will engage in some soft diplomacy before the big event.
    Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • For almost two decades, Sergei Lavrov has been the frowning face of Russian diplomacy.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That means no more hostage diplomacy, no $6 billion in exchange for hostages.
    Eric Shawn, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • That hope evaporated with the collapse of his diplomacy with Mr. Trump in 2019.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Call it a juggling act, a triumph in diplomacy, a vision gone right, or sheer chutzpah.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Working with Egypt to get the Rafah crossing open—that was the result of personal diplomacy by the President.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But they weren’t fully acquainted with the fabric's worth in the West, since their only foreign trade of the textile was a part of their diplomacy.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Hear the finer points of diplomacy with Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice?
    Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Jan. 2024
  • An approach that combines diplomacy with deterrence is the least bad way for the United States to deal with this intractable problem in the near term.
    Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024

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