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attaches

  • present tense form
    of attach (3rd person singular).
    attach
    verb (used with object)
    to fasten or affix; join; connect.
attachés
  • plural
    of attaché.
    attaché
    noun
    a diplomatic official attached to an embassy or legation, especially in a technical capacity.

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Military attachés, too, from a variety of embassies are observing the drill from a viewing platform.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

More information would be provided at a briefing for military attachés, he added.

From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2022

In the early 1950s, the US government, in particular the Department of State and the CIA, tried using independent scientists as attachés — actually, spies.

From Nature ● Oct. 30, 2018

Sometimes he’s conducting poetry workshops; sometimes he’s dealing with cultural attachés or smooth-tongued diplomats; sometimes he’s face to face with refugees in camps.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018

The attachés of our show got into trouble with the quarrelsome element of the crowd and ended by boasting that they were all Yankees.

From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup

Even then, the streamer attaches some pragmatic caveats to his disdain.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

Even so, a certain perplexity attaches to his supposed realism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

He coats the eggs with glue secreted from his legs and attaches clusters of egg sacs to his own body while they develop.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

The precision with which each woman is painted attaches the reader to the characters and the characters to the plot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

She attaches the end of the new ribbon to the same branch to make it look continuous, and begins the process of weaving it through.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline