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bureaucrat

[byoor-uh-krat] / ˈbyʊər əˌkræt /
NOUN
government official
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The future of the chief information officer was once in doubt, the role cast as a bureaucrat destined to be replaced by someone, anyone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Dudek and a fellow Social Security Administration bureaucrat taped the scroll across a wall of a windowless executive office.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025

But now earnings from years of service are yanked away at the whim of a bureaucrat.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

“Why? It gives people a chance to make a lot of money, and because it’s a change for people to say ‘no bureaucrat is going to tell me what to do.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

The experience cut him deeply, in particular the fact his competence lay exposed to the review of a bureaucrat over whom he had no influence.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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