The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The documents were sent by the German embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on 20 June 1941 inside 83 diplomatic pouches aboard a Japanese steamship, according to information gathered by court officials.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
The State Department previously fought an effort by Congress to review whether diplomatic pouches, protected from searches under international law, had been used to move contraband.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022
The embassy said it has followed the rules laid out in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and accused the United States of unlawfully opening diplomatic pouches and searching the contents.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2020
The absolutist understanding of mission inviolability also embraces an outdated, romantic vision of diplomacy that imagines trained consuls meeting in person at elegant bars and ferrying secretive information about in diplomatic pouches.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2018
Soon Stan and Dennis were back at the office getting a tutorial on how the Russians smuggle things into the United States in diplomatic pouches.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2017
