as in official
a worker in a government agency
the officious mandarins in the motor vehicles department refused to let me renew my license without all of the required forms
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Recent Examples of mandarin
The Pre Wash Scalp Oil is also infused with amber, cashmere musk, lemon and mandarin leaving a subtle fragrance that’s equal parts cozy and sparkling.
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Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
Well balanced flavors in a slightly textured but also creamy mid palate that include guava, mandarins, pineapple and some honey.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Subtle and syrupy first nose, followed by aromas of honey dew melon as well as honey, limes, guava and mandarins.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Aromas of honey, nutmeg, sage, mandarins, ginger and queen of the night.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
Well balanced flavors in a slightly textured but also creamy mid palate that include guava, mandarins, pineapple and some honey.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Subtle and syrupy first nose, followed by aromas of honey dew melon as well as honey, limes, guava and mandarins.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Aromas of honey, nutmeg, sage, mandarins, ginger and queen of the night.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mandarin
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Members of the Marine Corps could start arriving in the Los Angeles area as soon as Tuesday, a defense official told CBS News.—
Eleanor Watson,
CBS News,
10 June 2025
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Among the buildings hit in the Black Sea coastal city were a maternity hospital and an emergency medical center, officials said.—
Jason Volack,
ABC News,
10 June 2025
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Moreover, tensions are emerging among Russian elites as a result of Putin’s efforts to push aside existing business leaders, bureaucrats, and others in favor of loyalists who adhere to the regime’s ideology or at least pay lip service to it, such as war veterans.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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The Empire is full of bickering bureaucrats, which is fun to watch though bad for getting the Death Star done in a timely manner, and Darth Vader power walks into scenes that both undermine his icon status yet also cement it.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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Months later, police arrested Hoffman, a store clerk, and he was found guilty of beating the young father-to-be with a claw hammer and shooting him.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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The clerk opened the register and stuffed his bag with cash before the man fled on foot.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
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The father of 12 built a successful business polishing floors, hiring several workers.—
Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2025
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His widow came back in 1969, the year after his assassination, to lead a hospital workers strike.—
Samantha Balaban,
NPR,
14 June 2025
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As startup businesses morph into scaleups, their key employees gain experience and start to develop business ideas of their own.—
Trevor Clawson,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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The Winter Park Playhouse employee marched against Trump when he was first elected in 2016.—
Kairi Lowery,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2025
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This economic history argues that America’s prosperity is the product not of an undisturbed free market but, rather, of the hard work of functionaries.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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There is a vast tide of Imperial functionaries, from soldiers to bureaucrats to technicians, all conforming to survive the predations of the Emperor’s whims.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
23 Apr. 2025
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Like other civil servants, immigration judges can't be fired because of their politics.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
6 June 2025
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Elon Musk, an unelected citizen, has led a squadron of twentysomethings on a spree through the federal government, laying off tens of thousands of civil servants, shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development, and seizing control of the Treasury Department’s payment system.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Mandarin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mandarin. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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