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attaché

[a-ta-shay, at-uh-, uh-tash-ay] / æ tæˈʃeɪ, ˌæt ə-, əˈtæʃ eɪ /
NOUN
attaché case
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“It’s a five alarm emergency that’s dividing North America from Europe,” said John Foreman, a former U.K. defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

China posted a military attaché to the country for the first time in 2024.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025

Germany said he and his companion were kidnapped, and responded by summoning Vietnam’s ambassador for talks and expelling its intelligence attaché.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

As an indication of warming ties, the Israeli military earlier on Monday appointed a colonel as defence attaché to Morocco.

From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2023

I like also the Hungarian; a thorough gentleman, formerly attaché at Paris, and then in the Austrian cavalry, and now a pardoned exile, with broken health.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

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

High-level defectors he reached for interviews described embassy officials and military attachés smuggling ivory from Angola, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as trafficking rhino horn from South Africa and Mozambique.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 16, 2017

The Court at the Head-quarters of the Empire shall consist of three Judges for the trial of Grand Dragons, and the Officers and attachés belonging to the Head-quarters of the Empire.

From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J. C. Lester


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