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Etymology

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Perhaps in reference to the smoke from industrial facilities.

Proper noun

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Foggy Bottom

  1. A neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
  2. (US politics, metonymically) The United States Department of State, whose headquarters are nearby.
    • 2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      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.

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