as in hackers
a scientist or technical expert and especially one with much authority
A group of experienced technocrats were tasked with implementing the company's cybersecurity measures.
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Recent Examples of technocrats
Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
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Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has opportunistically seized on air-conditioning, portraying it as an urgent quality-of-life issue that moralizing environmentalists and overreaching technocrats have ignored.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Her likely economic team includes veteran technocrats such as former Economy Minister Luis Carranza.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Meanwhile, a committee of Palestinian technocrats nominated to govern Gaza’s day-to-day affairs have yet to enter the enclave, said people close to the committee.
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Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
But the presence in Iran of American missionaries and, later, invited government technocrats, was of an entirely different quality.
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Daniel Thomas Potts,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
Various strands of the opposition—ethnic minorities, leftists, and educated technocrats—appeared determined to block him, even at the price of leaving the regime in place.
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Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
Instead, our species’ overreliance on the programs had generated an upper ruling class of technocrats that soon presided over all aspects of society.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
Zoltan Tarr, the second-highest leader in Tisza, told Politico in a piece published Monday that his party hopes to draft business leaders, outside experts, and other technocrats without political experience for their hypothetical government.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Mar. 2026
Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has opportunistically seized on air-conditioning, portraying it as an urgent quality-of-life issue that moralizing environmentalists and overreaching technocrats have ignored.
—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Her likely economic team includes veteran technocrats such as former Economy Minister Luis Carranza.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Meanwhile, a committee of Palestinian technocrats nominated to govern Gaza’s day-to-day affairs have yet to enter the enclave, said people close to the committee.
—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
But the presence in Iran of American missionaries and, later, invited government technocrats, was of an entirely different quality.
—
Daniel Thomas Potts,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
Various strands of the opposition—ethnic minorities, leftists, and educated technocrats—appeared determined to block him, even at the price of leaving the regime in place.
—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
Instead, our species’ overreliance on the programs had generated an upper ruling class of technocrats that soon presided over all aspects of society.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
Zoltan Tarr, the second-highest leader in Tisza, told Politico in a piece published Monday that his party hopes to draft business leaders, outside experts, and other technocrats without political experience for their hypothetical government.
—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for technocrats
hackers
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Those concerns and fears crystalize in responses to Anthropic’s Mythos model and the successive rollout of Fable, where both of these models can be useful in allowing hackers to leverage agents swarms.
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An investigation conducted jointly with the US government and European partners revealed that the attacks on accounts were carried out by hackers from Iran and post-Soviet countries.
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