bureaucrat
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The column contends this response reinforced perceptions that he is a joyless bureaucrat, not a person voters can relate to or trust with state leadership.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
It has arguably made her the country's most famous bureaucrat.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 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
Dudek and a fellow Social Security Administration bureaucrat taped the scroll across a wall of a windowless executive office.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 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
Vocabulary lists containing bureaucrat
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