Dulles
Americannoun
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Allen Welsh, 1893–1969, U.S. public official: CIA director 1953–61.
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John Foster, 1888–1959, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1953–59.
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Example Sentences
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CNN stationed a reporter at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia to send live updates from the runway where his flight was scheduled to land.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
“Few of those who came before or after had thought about, or read as much on, the nature of international peace as Dulles had,” Mr. Sewell tells us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Dulles served as Eisenhower’s secretary of state from his first inauguration until Dulles’s death from cancer, in May 1959.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
United is also the biggest player at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. and San Francisco International Airport — two of the most expensive airports in the country for flights.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
On the second day of September 1987, around suppertime, Eugene Johnson, the civilian biohazard expert attached to usamriid, stood in a passen- ger-arrival area outside the customs gates at Dulles International Airport, near Washington.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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