bureaucrat
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If he wants to live large, there are more amenable careers than being a high-level bureaucrat tasked with keeping the public safe from crime.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
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
"But these were exceptions to the rule - relying on individual brilliance rather than a system that will function even after the bureaucrat is long gone," says Mr Bisen.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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