foreign secretary
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of foreign secretary
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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Other shifts include Ed Miliband as foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper to the Department of Health, and Angela Rayner's reinstatement as Minister for Housing.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
And he is not the first Miliband to hold the role: his brother David was foreign secretary for Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
A keen eye will be on who gets the big jobs - chancellor, home secretary and foreign secretary.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“It would be superfluous in me,” Abraham Lincoln’s emissary Charles Francis Adams wrote to the British foreign secretary, “to point out to your lordship that this is war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
I had agreed to international mediation, and on April 13 a dele-gation arrived led by Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, and Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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