apparatchik

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Recent Examples of apparatchik Khamenei will decide which hardline apparatchik appears on the ballot to replace him. Karl Vick, TIME, 23 May 2024 There were several oligarchs who helped Putin rise from a K.G.B. apparatchik in Leningrad to autocrat in the Kremlin. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024 In the intensely ideological and conformist atmosphere of today’s China, no apparatchik will depart from the safety of the party line without a clear signal from the leader. Danny Russel, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2021 Decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War ideology continues to form Western perceptions of the Eastern Bloc as a backward region, uniformly totalitarian, where everybody was either an apparatchik or a dissident. Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for apparatchik
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Noun
  • Besides being massively ignorant, Musk and his minions are drunk on ideology.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • Through their minions in the media, in Big Pharma, and woke teachers manipulating their children's minds, these elites hold an iron grip on society.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pantoliano’s character, Angelo, was a soldier in the infantry, stationed in Hawaii in 1941.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 19 May 2025
  • Named by Variety as one of 10 Spanish directors to watch in 2022, Azorín delivers a dual-timeline narrative set in Roman baths, where a 21st-century boy shares a hot bath with a 1st-century Roman soldier, both reflecting on their own frailty.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • This post-neoliberal script has adherents on both sides of the political aisle.
    Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But after making an initial splash in 2009 thanks to high-profile adherents like marathon star Paula Radcliffe, the first wave of high-quality studies supported the idea that beet juice really does improve endurance.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Shawn reluctantly agrees, but is humiliated when Cory starts acting corny around his friend Gambling Dan (Phil Buckman), and his lackey, Louie (Weiss).
    EW.com, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • While Israel and its lackeys in Washington, D.C. blame Hamas for the breakdown, the opposite is true.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Apparatchik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparatchik. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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