State Department
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ninety US citizens were missing, the State Department said Thursday, adding that three had been rescued.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
The State Department didn’t respond to questions about the event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The US State Department said it was aware that Americans were impacted by Wednesday's floods but did not provide numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Last year, before the federal cuts to USAID, Barton met with State Department officials in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Funded by both the War Department and the State Department, the outfit was based in New York City, at a town house on East Thirty-Eighth Street.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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