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
It has arguably made her the country's most famous bureaucrat.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
“I completely failed the test,” he said of his experience as a bureaucrat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
But now earnings from years of service are yanked away at the whim of a bureaucrat.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
I remember glimpsing a big bureaucrat whose face filled one of the windowpanes and thinking, Maybe he ought to come in here and try it himself.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing bureaucrat
This Week in Words: August 25 - 31, 2018
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President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
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