bureaucrat
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Filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro is just over 42, young enough to think like this bathroom-fixated bureaucrat who doesn’t seem to think getting old will happen to them either.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
He isn’t a bureaucrat who can simply be swapped for another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
A bureaucrat, who works closely with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently said that the government was actively encouraging overseas Indians to return and contribute to nation-building.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025
While some prominent Taliban fighters and leaders were sent to Guantanamo, Halimi, as a relatively unknown bureaucrat, was part of a group that was gradually let out.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025
And while presidents came and went, this bureaucrat, now thick around the waist and with jowls like a bulldog, remained.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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