bureaucrat
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So how did this seemingly quiet, retiring child and self-effacing bureaucrat turn into a president who so avidly embraced the limelight?
From BBC • May 30, 2026
If he wants to live large, there are more amenable careers than being a high-level bureaucrat tasked with keeping the public safe from crime.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
They also want to elect someone they think is a human, not a joyless bureaucrat.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
But in 2021, a low-level National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bureaucrat banned anyone from swimming within 50 yards of Hawaiian spinner dolphins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The experience cut him deeply, in particular the fact his competence lay exposed to the review of a bureaucrat over whom he had no influence.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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