apparatchiks
- plural of apparatchik.
Example Sentences
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired a senior official tasked with economic policy and condemned "incompetent" apparatchiks for delays in the opening of an important factory, state media said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Are they academics, scholars and scientists, or do they also include those of less elevated standing — technocrats, policy wonks, apparatchiks, pundits, journalists — who command a sizable public audience?
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024
Baehr seems to believe that cultural edicts can be handed down as imperiously as judicial opinions, so a handful of well-placed apparatchiks can redirect the zeitgeist.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
But in practice almost nobody aside from police and party apparatchiks had been able to get one.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
The USSR’s politburo, the apex of political power in which decisions of real consequence were made, was staffed by aging apparatchiks who had spent their entire lives working within this system.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
