bureaucrat

Example Sentences

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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

"But these were exceptions to the rule - relying on individual brilliance rather than a system that will function even after the bureaucrat is long gone," says Mr Bisen.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

But Katayama, who transitioned from a two-decade career as a finance ministry bureaucrat to a politician in 2005, is seen as more fiscally conservative and has expressed concerns about the yen’s weakness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

But now earnings from years of service are yanked away at the whim of a bureaucrat.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson