officialdom
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As Los Angeles became more crowded and less pleasant a place to live, the high-handedness of Southern California developers and officialdom occasionally got those hands slapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
This turnaround is also exacerbating a culture of fear and uncertainty in the ranks of Chinese officialdom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Despite her energetic enquiries to several layers of officialdom within Germany and beyond, Usik says she "hasn't been able to find a solution".
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
The modest scale of his work, its whiff of the romantic past, puts it at odds with the epic proportions and air of officialdom of I.M.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
Uniforms, posters warning against fifth columnists, two big air-raid shelters dug into the park lawns, and everywhere, surly officialdom.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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