How to Use technocratic in a Sentence

technocratic

adjective
  • And blacks aren’t moved by his progressivism in a technocratic guise.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • Yet another was that the technocratic experts were part of a deep state, and weren’t telling the truth.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
  • As such, secretaries of state tend to be more technocratic and civic-minded.
    Maresa Strano, Time, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Mr Duque, his protégé, is less strident and more technocratic.
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • There’s more to managing than being a technocratic clerk in servitude to the geeks.
    Joe McCarthy*, Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • At best, Hamas might seek to maintain its armed forces behind this technocratic cover.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The best response to these developments is to face the contours of this brave new technocratic world head-on.
    Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The lobby floor of the Amygdala office is out of a technocratic sci-fi movie (the future is here!
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The Obama years, for example, gave rise to a technocratic voice that was shaped by the rise of blogging.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And that means Democrats need to think bigger than technocratic tinkering.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
  • But the dry, technocratic details of trust law conceal tremendous power.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • More political and less technocratic, more hot than cold, impatient to make a splash.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Vallas has tried to portray himself as a technocratic problem-solver who can best run the city out of the nine-candidate field.
    Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • His dry and technocratic political style might just have won him over to Germans looking for a steady hand.
    The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2021
  • If technocratic future-fantasies of labor and housing are cause for chagrin, so too are those of wealth transfer.
    Julianne Tveten, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
  • And despite a perennial fear of a technocratic future, robots haven’t nearly caught up to us yet.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Yet the Republican bill is not a technocratic fix for these problems.
    The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • Putin's approach in his next term will be to create a more technocratic elite; appoint people who are younger, more efficient in his eyes.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
  • How can a collection of lawyers and economists be described as technocratic?
    Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • His is a technocratic party, the voters of which care about the nuances of government action and for which wonkery is an asset.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 July 2022
  • Schmidt, then the chairman of Google, was an avatar of technocratic liberalism.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • What if a series of technocratic tweaks and training could make the police 72 percent less savage?
    David Roth, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
  • Fewer voters are showing a desire to vent anger at technocratic elites than before the pandemic.
    Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Should France, then, take a page out of Italy’s book and consider a technocratic government?
    Charlotte Reed, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Of course the paper is written in a somewhat dry technocratic style and is designed to pull punches rather than grab readers’ attention.
    Jemma Green, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • At the same time, a technocratic cabinet will lay the groundwork for rebuilding the economy.
    Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The engineer looking at the screens in Hayek’s analogy is not a member of the technocratic elite locked up in a control room.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But in recent months, al-Sadr has pressed for the creation of a non-religious, technocratic government.
    Vivienne Walt, Time, 14 May 2018
  • Why not, then, look to technocratic Caesars like Moses to browbeat the opposition and get things done?
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Such technocratic language must have sounded feeble next to the angry pleas of the residents and the political red meat served up by their lawyers.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021

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