technocrats

plural of technocrat
as in hackers
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 technocrats For Commander Brown, public safety is determined by risk that technocrats meet behind a closed door to determine. Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026 Eight of those seats are reserved for women, religious scholars, technocrats, and overseas citizens. Aqil Shah, Time, 17 Aug. 2026 Hamad bin Jassim ran much of the diplomacy, Sheikha Moza built the education and cultural project, and the gas wager needed technocrats willing to bet on a market that barely existed. Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 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 Her likely economic team includes veteran technocrats such as former Economy Minister Luis Carranza. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026 Meanwhile, a committee of Palestinian technocrats nominated to govern Gaza’s day-to-day affairs have yet to enter the enclave, said people close to the committee. Matt Bradley, NBC news, 12 May 2026 But the presence in Iran of American missionaries and, later, invited government technocrats, was of an entirely different quality. Daniel Thomas Potts, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
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hackers
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  • The dark web site that was selling the 153 million driver’s licenses appears to have been removed, but the hackers could easily spin up a new site or sell the information to other cybercriminals through private channels.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
  • OpenAI in July disclosed its autonomous agents successfully breached AI platform Hugging Face, while Anthropic in April took steps to limit the rollout of its Mythos AI model over concerns hackers could leverage it for cyberattacks.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Technocrats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technocrats. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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