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Foggy Bottom
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English
Etymology
Perhaps in reference to the smoke from industrial facilities.
Proper noun
Foggy Bottom
en neighborhood city/Washington, D.C. c/USA.
en US politics metonym The United States Department of State, whose headquarters are located nearby.
en The Atlantic How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work Chris Murphy https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/senator-chris-murphy-progressive-foreign-policy/599470/ 2019-10-07 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked boldly about smart power projection, but by the time she left Foggy Bottom, she was still stuck deploying the same meager, smart power tools that she inherited. https://web.archive.org/web/20260524023615/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/senator-chris-murphy-progressive-foreign-policy/599470/ 24 May 2026
Translations
foggy neighborhood; DOS
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 霧谷 Wù Gǔ
Japanese: ja
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