bureaucrat
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But in 2021, a low-level National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bureaucrat banned anyone from swimming within 50 yards of Hawaiian spinner dolphins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
But now earnings from years of service are yanked away at the whim of a bureaucrat.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
“Our folks’ lives are more important than what some bureaucrat wants us to do.”
From Salon • Jul. 22, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing bureaucrat
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President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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