Examples of officialdom in a Sentence
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Japan has only recently introduced a very modest incentive scheme and local officialdom historically has viewed foreign productions warily at best.
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
With a revenue number in hand, officialdom then calculates how much of it must be allocated to public schools under Proposition 98, the 1988 ballot measure that governs financing of K-12 schools and community colleges.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
That thought is not new, but is increasingly echoed privately in some corners of officialdom.
—Luke McGee, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
Nothing had been done yet but officialdom was on the case.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Read the latest updates here Many among Lebanon’s officialdom — NBC News spoke to a dozen diplomats, military chiefs and leaders of militant organizations for this article — fear that Netanyahu may turn his personal troubles into a regional nightmare.
—Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
This book documents his experience in those archives, navigating the bureaucracy that governs Egypt’s national patrimony and coming to know the people who inhabit this tiny corner of the country’s vast officialdom.
—Alan Mikhail, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Rumors of a mass betrayal within Kherson officialdom spread.
—James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
Grassroots efforts swiftly sprang up to coordinate communication between the families of the missing and Israeli officialdom.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
With a revenue number in hand, officialdom then calculates how much of it must be allocated to public schools under Proposition 98, the 1988 ballot measure that governs financing of K-12 schools and community colleges.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
That thought is not new, but is increasingly echoed privately in some corners of officialdom.
—Luke McGee, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
Nothing had been done yet but officialdom was on the case.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Read the latest updates here Many among Lebanon’s officialdom — NBC News spoke to a dozen diplomats, military chiefs and leaders of militant organizations for this article — fear that Netanyahu may turn his personal troubles into a regional nightmare.
—Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
This book documents his experience in those archives, navigating the bureaucracy that governs Egypt’s national patrimony and coming to know the people who inhabit this tiny corner of the country’s vast officialdom.
—Alan Mikhail, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Rumors of a mass betrayal within Kherson officialdom spread.
—James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
Grassroots efforts swiftly sprang up to coordinate communication between the families of the missing and Israeli officialdom.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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“Officialdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/officialdom. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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officialdom
noun
of·fi·cial·dom
ə-ˈfish-əl-dəm 
: officials as a class
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