How to Use bureaucrat in a Sentence

bureaucrat

noun
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  • The bureaucrat and the former head of the school have been charged with bribery.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
  • But now Morell, with the support of the Kennedy School’s chief bureaucrat, has the last word.
    — John B. Judis, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Even the bureaucrats at NASA have grand plans for the future.
    — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Even state bureaucrats are now being asked to do the same.
    — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Not be run by a bunch of bureaucrats based in Brussels.
    — Fox News, 12 July 2018
  • The career bureaucrat’s tool of choice has become the leak.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • Now, the two long term time bureaucrats were once referred to as brothers and arms.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • Trump’s close aides have long seen the ranks of bureaucrats as standing in the way of the President’s efforts.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The hard-Brexit crowd, who long to tell the bureaucrats of Brussels to get stuffed, admire Mr Trump’s no-nonsense approach to the rest of the world.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2018
  • Again and again, the red tape of bureaucrats interferes in the simple pleasures of pasture and open sky.
    — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Washington is far from the bureaucrat-type of chief who sits in his office.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • His long tenure as a healthcare bureaucrat should come to an end.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Caught in the mix are the teachers and bus drivers, bureaucrats and police officers who make up the spine of the nation’s day-to-day life.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Here’s to bureaucrats, who always get the grief, and never the credit, who will work long, hard hours through this crisis.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Who scrounged to build her home and start a small business, struggled to meet a payroll and was forced to deal with clueless bureaucrats.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • About 900 people were injured in the accident, P.K. Jena, the top bureaucrat in the eastern state of Odisha, said in a tweet.
    — Ashok Sharma, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • At least the federal bureaucrats’ boss has to face the voters every four years.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But this made a mockery of the idea that markets, rather than bureaucrats, should determine trade flows.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • City council members and their key staffers, as well as top-level bureaucrats, declined to speak on the record about Smith.
    — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Ethanol and corn industry groups said language in the rule leaves too much at the whim of federal bureaucrats and could cause ethanol use to fall short.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Here, Hamm plays a no-nonsense bureaucrat in this satire of corporate mores.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • Yao, then 24, had been asked to address a large, diverse group of NBA players and Chinese bureaucrats.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially by the bureaucrat class.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Townspeople, soldiers, and bureaucrats alike all wear the split-toe shoe.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But is this to become something for bureaucrats to hide behind?
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The scandal has left a trail of unfinished projects, frightened politicians and bureaucrats, and wary bankers.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But the check endured anyhow, too useful to be stamped out by a bunch of persnickety bureaucrats.
    — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • And the bureaucrat on whose desk that application landed took one look at it, squinted, and said . . .
    — Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The bureaucrats don’t want to follow his other order requiring them to show up at their offices.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The bureaucrats at our intelligence services have gotten completely out of control.
    — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025

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