How to Use diplomacy in a Sentence

diplomacy

noun
  • She has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy.
  • This is a situation that calls for tactful diplomacy.
  • The government avoided a war by successfully resolving the issues through diplomacy.
  • That is what trade diplomacy can look like when the log is put down.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 26 May 2026
  • Well, diplomacy can reach a deal.
    — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Is there still room for diplomacy?
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Rely on your charm and diplomacy to bail you out.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And with that, an era of panda diplomacy will end, at least for now.
    — Edward Wong Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Sports and diplomacy aren’t strangers.
    — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This is a pointed shift in space diplomacy.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • And that shows something that’s gone wrong in our diplomacy.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • This is diplomacy at its best, after all.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There is a greater theme of diplomacy and beauty in every sense of the word.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Biden would still like to bring the war to a conclusion through diplomacy.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The collapse of the talks wasn’t the fault of bad faith or clumsy diplomacy.
    — Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
  • His knack for diplomacy helped douse the embers of thorny issues he was asked to help with.
    — Carol Cain, Freep.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • What is the least bad option in dealing with hostage diplomacy?
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • He is engaged in high- level, high stakes diplomacy for a long time.
    — CBS News, 16 July 2023
  • But not Hochman, whose strained diplomacy has raised eyebrows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • This asymmetry shows up in diplomacy all the time.
    — Majeed Javdani, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In diplomacy, even short words matter.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Many have said that diplomacy without force is weakness.
    — Abigail R. Hall, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
  • Both are stern, strict, lacking diplomacy.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Yet sometimes diplomacy is about picking the least bad out of a slate of bad options.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But soft power and person-to-person diplomacy are seen as ways to build back trust.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Even in the midst of war, diplomacy can still make room for necessity.
    — Comfort Ero, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
  • For diplomacy to work, can threats and posturing give way to a restoration of trust?
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The Wampanoag laid down their armor and joined the meal as a gesture of diplomacy.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Austin added there was a lot of space for diplomacy and leadership to work on Ukraine.
    — Sonnet Swire, CNN, 4 Dec. 2021
  • That means no more hostage diplomacy, no $6 billion in exchange for hostages.
    — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023

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