foreign service
Example Sentences
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After graduation, he opted for Wall Street rather than the foreign service, journalism, or computer science.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Still, when their husbands die, ostensibly in a plane crash, Bea and Twila are grief-stricken — they have lost not only their husbands but their careers as foreign service wives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
And then they tell the career civil servants and foreign service officers and military people, “This is what we want to get at the negotiating table. How do we do that?”
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025
Not long after that job ended, Merry retired from the foreign service.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2024
In company, therefore, with the earl of Norfolk he refused to render foreign service in Gascony, on the plea that they were only bound to serve with the king, who was himself bound for Flanders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
