diplomatic corps

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A former British diplomat said Andrew was jokingly called “His Buffoon Highness” by members of the diplomatic corps in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

When the future empress of Japan entered the country’s elite diplomatic corps in 1987, a year after a major equal employment law went into effect, she was one of only three female recruits.

From New York Times • May 7, 2024

Hassilev attended Harvard for a year, but dissatisfied with the Ivy League atmosphere, he transferred to the University of Chicago with the idea of going into the diplomatic corps.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2024

This was the key accomplishment of this meeting, regardless of the intentions going into it: The world’s two most powerful countries—their leaders, diplomatic corps, and military officers—are talking again.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

Headlines like “Untouchability Banished in India: Worshipped in America,” which appeared in a Bombay newspaper in 1951, mortified the US diplomatic corps.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly