as in hacker
a scientist or technical expert and especially one with much authority
A group of experienced technocrats were tasked with implementing the company's cybersecurity measures.
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Recent Examples of technocrat
If Japan is any example, the collaboration between technocrats and right-wing politicians is unlikely to last forever.
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: The details of any plan to release the GSEs from government control get fiendishly complicated very quickly, as technocrats argue over such issues as liquidation preferences, credit risk transfer instruments, and corporate credit ratings.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Advertisement In the seemingly inevitable future where artificial intelligence has flooded our workforce with emotionally engaged and intelligent AI agents, our overpromising technocrats offer us a consolation: AI will solve loneliness.
—Silvia Park, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025
Such problems would be tough enough to handle if the sanctions technocrats were still in charge.
—Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: The details of any plan to release the GSEs from government control get fiendishly complicated very quickly, as technocrats argue over such issues as liquidation preferences, credit risk transfer instruments, and corporate credit ratings.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Advertisement In the seemingly inevitable future where artificial intelligence has flooded our workforce with emotionally engaged and intelligent AI agents, our overpromising technocrats offer us a consolation: AI will solve loneliness.
—Silvia Park, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025
Such problems would be tough enough to handle if the sanctions technocrats were still in charge.
—Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for technocrat
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From government warnings as hackers target passwords and 2FA codes to use in their extortion attacks, one ransomware campaign dropping zero-days, and researchers indicating a 5,365 ransomware attack rampage.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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What emerges is a portrait of the artist as an itinerant hacker, and a snapshot of digital creation in the years before social media or the advent of the cloud.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
7 May 2025
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Meanwhile, a team of techie whiz kids again work their special computer magic (another highlight) at a hidden institution and show up the Luddite adults.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2025
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Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter who identified as more of an art kid than a techie, also hung out at the same South Park playground and mused to friends about ideas that eventually became his social media app.—
Mike Isaac,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Technocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technocrat. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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