How to Use officialdom in a Sentence

officialdom

noun
  • So far, no one in officialdom has had the nerve to object - not publicly, at least.
    — Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • These are all the things that mean the recognition of officialdom.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In the absence of a good officialdom that can help children, Hjorth offers a good witch who can hold them.
    — Elaine Blair, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • To date, Olympic officialdom has furnished nothing but bland pledges.
    — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • The drug groups are also deeply entangled with officialdom at even the most local level.
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Then Robin takes over, and the film changes tenor once more from a comedy of officialdom to a high-voltage love story.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Artists once again serve at the pleasure of officialdom, whose purview—like the surveillance state itself—grows more total by the day.
    — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Rats have long reigned in the capital of the most powerful nation – right under the nose of officialdom.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
  • That thought is not new, but is increasingly echoed privately in some corners of officialdom.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This is a line that is hardly exclusive to Chinese officialdom.
    — David Rieff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But lately even Baidu has fallen foul of Chinese officialdom.
    — Time, 18 Jan. 2018
  • This required clever and gutsy navigating through military officialdom and hitching all sorts of rides on jeeps and planes.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • The 55-year-old Roizman is a rare figure in Russia's officialdom.
    — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • By late February, the network had found its voice in part by echoing messages from Russian officialdom.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And Qatari officialdom has brushed off criticism in an often hamfisted manner.
    — Time, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Yet the unions’ cozy but paradoxical relationship with officialdom empowers them to block change.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The other witnesses in Michigan tried to channel a grand falsehood into the language of officialdom.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • But even after decades in the country, other Kayan have not been issued such paperwork, leaving them at the mercy of Thai officialdom.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • But while a crop of new and exclusively male faces now populate the top of European officialdom, the institutions many of them lead are the same as ever.
    — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2017
  • For all its ponderous officialdom, the Pentagon also has an especially clear chain of command.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The Post’s reporting on Afghan war lies by officialdom is already being compared to those monumental papers.
    — Ivan Eland, Twin Cities, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The officialdom of Paris seemed to accept this, approving the construction of a new skyscraper, the Tour Triangle, that same year.
    — Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The National Gallery, which, by the way, opened 20 years after the Phillips, is a temple of art and has the imprimatur of officialdom.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
  • But Simon acknowledged that the tour may have little leverage to influence Chinese officialdom.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Chinese officialdom has noticed.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But like The Wire, another show about a shadow economy both harassed and made possible by officialdom, The Deuce is about more than its big-name stars.
    — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • These efforts were driven by teachers who often had to work below the radar of education officialdom—a parallel universe working in the shadows of their school’s formal structures and reform plans.
    — Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Although arithmetically insignificant, the tiny gain was hailed by officialdom and media as proof that California is no longer losing people.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 5 Feb. 2026
  • At the moment, the market’s towering P/E and officialdom’s supply-chain optimism are the lone possible signals that trouble could be brewing.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • But then, Beijing officialdom might have to entertain the possibility that Xiconomics is falling flat with the biggest of the global big money.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

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