apparatchik

Example Sentences

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Across the Florida Straits, Díaz-Canel, viewed largely as an apparatchik, dug in.

From Washington Post

And yet tennis apparatchiks seem to have assumed she would fall in line for the same reason golf ones presumed Koepka’s interview would be quietly passed around a private room: because that’s the done thing.

From New York Times

Ali Vaez, the Iran director for the International Crisis Group, called Mr. Raisi a “tested and loyal apparatchik” to Mr. Khamenei who would not challenge the supreme leader’s policies or interfere with his legacy.

From New York Times

So, instead, they focus on mostly meaningless things like which former corporate apparatchik is going to have a nice title, make a bunch of cash, and go to board meetings in nice places.

From Washington Times

Artistic and intellectual greatness, when democratic taste turns philistine or liberal intellectuals become apparatchiks.

From New York Times