apparatchiks

variants also apparatchiki
plural of apparatchik

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of apparatchiks This agitprop is vomited out 24/7 by Democrat media apparatchiks who were also unerringly described by Orwell in his novel 1984. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apparatchiks
Noun
  • Cederquist is one of scores of bad cops included in the book, as is one of his minions in the Stoughton crew, a guy named Calvin Butner.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Amon, a tank-like Forgeknight; and Vex, a Siren who has the ability to spawn minions and drain life from enemies like a necromancer.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two enemy soldiers are tasked with the farcical mission of guarding a middle-of-nowhere border in the remote desert.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Visitors have reported seeing soldiers strolling across the fields, a general on the back porch and the sounds of a cook who worked for the family during the war.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Academics cite Wallace’s story as one of the catalysts behind a fringe concept that has spread among adherents to the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement and is gaining traction at the highest levels of the federal government.
    Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Srinivasan’s Network State—and its core idea of capturing or creating parallel, anti-democratic institutions—was attracting adherents on the tech right.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Apparatchiks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparatchiks. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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