How to Use technocracy in a Sentence

technocracy

noun

• The tone marked a vibe shift from the technocracies of yesteryear.
  — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
• Buttigieg is technocracy made flesh.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
• Besides, the moment of boundless technocracy was over, doomed by deficits and a sharp swerve in the public mood.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
• Although its legislature is elected, the union is in many ways a technocracy first.
  — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 29 June 2016
• Perhaps this sounds benign in the obtuse verbiage of technocracy.
  — Oren Cass, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
• But technocracy has also failed to address our most pressing—and most visible—health problems.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2024
• In other words, technocracy was a project to make peacetime administration look more like wartime mobilization, to make change at scale.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
• People in Western countries have been far too quick to throw centrist technocracy into the dustbin of history.
  — Noah Smith, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
• But some politicians build their careers on technocracy, detail, and competency.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 5 July 2017
• But today, with prediction markets, climate change, and the threat of technocracy, forecasting what’s to come is woven into the fabric of our lives.
  — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
• Attempts to expand technocracy will increase support for sidelining experts and elites entirely.
  — Sheri Berman, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
• Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.
  — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
• Could Iran resemble China and shift from theocracy to technocracy?
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
• California, the undisputed climate leader in the US, has shown that technocracy can work.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
• The sun is setting on the sanctions technocrats, and indeed on traditional technocracy more generally.
  — Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
• With a party made of novice deputies from various professional backgrounds, technocracy more than anything else has shaped the new president’s governing style.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017
• In recent years, this has occurred when the country defers to technocracy, expecting that the best outcomes emerge when experts govern for rather than govern with the rest of the citizenry.
  — Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• In short, there’s a competitive tension between democracy and technocracy.
  — Jamie Merisotis, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Howard Scott, a Greenwich Village gasbag, seized the moment to push his philosophy of technocracy.
  — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 23 June 2019
• As an ideology, technocracy holds that the problems in the world are technical problems that require technical solutions.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• And that vision, created at a time when European powers were carving up other parts of the world, was cloaked in metaphors of imperialism, technocracy, and war.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
• Normal rules of technocracy—everything private, special, secret, privileged—read differently in a place where young people wear snakes around their necks and charge strangers to take their pictures.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• Biden intends to revive the patterns of diplomacy and technocracy that had defined late twentieth-century liberalism, and had been thought to have lost their potency.
  — The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2022
• Expertise without democratic accountability can lead to technocracy and a different kind of dystopia.
  — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2025
• Michael doesn’t so much argue as feel that some combination of materialism, technocracy, and individualism is carrying us away from our purpose.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 June 2019
• That means the Parliament should be at the center of any attempt to imbue Brussels’s remote technocracy with democratic legitimacy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• Technocrats like to say that entire sectors of public policy are very complicated and therefore no one can propose reforms or even understand the sector without entry into the priesthood of the technocracy.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• Of course, replacing one form of blind adherence to authority with another—replacing technocracy with a circumscribed set of books blessed by a right-wing Christian consensus—is not the answer.
  — Annie Abrams, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
• Historian Jessica Wang explains that at the heart of the divide were competing approaches to technocracy, which split politicians and scientists.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 Feb. 2025
• From Bismarck’s Prussia flowed the current of modern state technocracy that eventually swelled into the deluge that would consume much of the 20th century.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 June 2021