technocrat

Definition of technocratnext
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 In his fullest public argument yet about his thinking, Thiel and co-author Sam Wolfe write the figure of ultimate evil is best understood not as a monster or a tyrant but as a technocrat. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026 Officials have not yet set a timeline to bring in a Palestinian technocrat committee to take governance of the enclave from Hamas, and the international force that proposed security infrastructure is yet to materialize. — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026 Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026 In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has opportunistically seized on air-conditioning, portraying it as an urgent quality-of-life issue that moralizing environmentalists and overreaching technocrats have ignored. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for technocrat
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Noun
  • Levi later gained access to a cache of Qatari documents from roughly the same period, which Syrian hackers had taken from the offices of the Sheikh, among others.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Ars Video The three researchers from Hacktron AI, a small security company, were paid $6,500 by OpenAI as part of a bug bounty program, a common practice where tech companies pay ethical hackers to test their security.
    — Cristina Criddle, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • In concluding remarks, Hao asked each panelist what inspired techies should be focusing on now.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Many were seemingly furious about San Francisco techies or the concept of polyamory.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 30 Apr. 2026

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“Technocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technocrat. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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