bureaucrat
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They sent a lower-ranking bureaucrat to sign it—a diplomatic snub.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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
Spy line: Joe yells at an intrusive bureaucrat, “I choose the assets. I choose the cover. I build the plan. And I run it. Me!”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025
Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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