bureaucrat
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Filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro is just over 42, young enough to think like this bathroom-fixated bureaucrat who doesn’t seem to think getting old will happen to them either.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The future of the chief information officer was once in doubt, the role cast as a bureaucrat destined to be replaced by someone, anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
While some prominent Taliban fighters and leaders were sent to Guantanamo, Halimi, as a relatively unknown bureaucrat, was part of a group that was gradually let out.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025
But now earnings from years of service are yanked away at the whim of a bureaucrat.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
Bloom wasn’t just a terrorizing demon; he was also a bureaucrat at the mercy of paperwork.
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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