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bureaucrat

noun as in government official

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Ms. Takaichi isn’t the bureaucrats’ cup of tea, and whether she can bend them to her will remains unclear.

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Yet EU bureaucrats struggle to go against their instincts, and instead of lowering costs and pursuing deregulation, Brussels doubles down on its climate agenda at the world’s expense.

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Yet now the organization backs Mr. Hawley’s bill that would empower Washington bureaucrats to dictate overbearing “contracts” that could destroy businesses and jobs.

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As these radicals and bureaucrats fudge the line between truth and fiction, they also lose sight of whether they want to live in a democracy or a dictatorship.

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Some officials rejected complaints, with one Krasnoyarsk bureaucrat suggesting remote workers who lost income should "go and work for the special military operation", as the war in Ukraine is known in Russia.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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