apparatchik

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Recent Examples of apparatchik Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is a laconic apparatchik who lacks the imagination to deal with complicated situations. Eric Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2023 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 See All Example Sentences for apparatchik
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apparatchik
Noun
  • Negan banished him and seized control of the Dama’s minions.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 8 June 2025
  • Eve’s drive for revenge also is a problem for the Ruska Roma, as The Director long has enjoyed an agreement with The Chancellor that neither’s minions will interfere with the other’s.
    Mark Meszoros, Boston Herald, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • His Telegram channel, followed by around half a million users, regularly features narrated footage of drones tracking and killing Russian soldiers.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • The biggest revelation in both movies is that throughout the war Lucas had heroin shipped to the U.S. from Vietnam in coffins containing dead soldiers.
    Steve Bloom, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • All this is part of the larger belief that only adherents belonging to religious traditions that arose in the Indian subcontinent are authentically Indian.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
  • The overall growth in the world’s Jewish population did not increase their proportion of the world’s religious adherents because of the much faster growth in other populations.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • And is order based on legalized violence and theft really order? Bulgakov would have had little time for a Bolshevik lackey like Samson.
    Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
  • Orwell’s warnings apply across the board, not just when obvious despots and lackeys let their fascist flags fly.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025

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“Apparatchik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparatchik. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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