How to Use technocrat in a Sentence

technocrat

noun
  • And a team of agile technocrats were on hand to fend off a crisis.
    Paul Sonne, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • And technocrats with some help from the government can figure out how to do it.
    Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
  • Barnier and his team of technocrats can only follow what’s been set down on paper.
    Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Technocrats will love this device, but those working for the weekend can take a pass.
    Daniel Dumas, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2007
  • And here right-thinking technocrats begin to whistle and look at their hands.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Such problems would be tough enough to handle if the sanctions technocrats were still in charge.
    Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Pull your pubic hair out in clumps from the root and send it in unmarked envelopes to technocrats.
    Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • At its heart, this is a contest between a technocrat and an activist.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • At the very least, Liu’s technocrats have shown a skill in taking advantage of the trade crisis.
    Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • If Haley were to prevail, Gallagher would be high in her list of must-hire technocrats.
    TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This plan, too, was written by a small group of technocrats and Western consultants close to the prince.
    chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • Projections that don’t come to pass are one more stick to use to beat central banks and the unelected technocrats who run them.
    Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • This has been allowed to occur because a small cabal of technocrats control the price of money.
    Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Clinton was not the only person who read Breyer as a technocrat.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • What are the odds that a group of nonpolitical technocrats could do a better job of reforming the tax code?
    Alan S. Blinder, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
  • According to Baunov, there remains a small group of technocrats who would prefer something short of all-out war.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • He was replaced by a psychopath who tanked the pound and then by Rishi, a very rich technocrat who is trying to square the circle.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Qaibaf is also a power-hungry technocrat.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026
  • Some of these technocrats and marginalized insiders feel alienated but are too afraid to act because of what may await them the day after.
    Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • In a sport dominated by technocrats and strongmen, Grant showed that there was another way to coach.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • These technocrats could also be ditched entirely if Putin decides the war effort requires a tighter grip.
    Maksim Samorukov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Heater returned the next day and watched as the scientists, technocrats, and tribal members joined together on the beach.
    Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Cheney was a patriot and a technocrat, not a demagogue.
    Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Since its inception nearly six decades ago, OPEC has been run by technocrats.
    Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • Yi Gang, China’s new central banker, known as a technocrat, mentioned the party five times in his speech.
    The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The parties still have to agree on a prime minister, who is expected to be a technocrat from outside the party structures.
    TIME, 16 May 2024
  • What came back is a picture of a fiercely competitive technocrat who’s not afraid to bruise egos and drill down to the smallest details to get things done.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 July 2024
  • Whereas Mrs von der Leyen speaks like a technocrat, Mr Johnson speaks like a bloke telling jokes in a pub.
    The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • But the future has passed, the technocrats have congealed into something creepier and scarier, and everyone on the squad is getting old.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Like it or not, the industry is becoming the new playground for America’s technocrats.
    CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026

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