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
  • Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • At just 17 years old, Amanda Seyfried booked her breakout role in Mean Girls as Regina George’s bimbo minion who could predict the weather with her boobs.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Just outside our car, soldiers beat down the door of a house and piled in.
    Antón Barba-Kay, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Three Indian army officials said that Pakistani soldiers used small arms to fire at an Indian position in Kashmir late Thursday.
    Time, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In some contexts, adherents to older intellectual traditions pushed back, especially in Poland, where resistance slowed though could not prevent the imposition of ideological control.
    Iveta Silova, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But framing Paul American as a retrospection on labor, with the boys and their family and their lackeys gassing them up over and over, just isn’t that interesting.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The current cast is rounded out by Alison Brie, who will play another Skeletor lackey, Evil-Lyn, Idris Elba, who will play the noble Man-at-Arms, and Riverdale's Camila Mendes as Teela, Man-at-Arms's daughter and He-Man's right-hand woman.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024

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“Apparatchik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparatchik. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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