How to Use technocrat in a Sentence

technocrat

noun
  • And a team of agile technocrats were on hand to fend off a crisis.
    Paul Sonne, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Pull your pubic hair out in clumps from the root and send it in unmarked envelopes to technocrats.
    Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • And technocrats with some help from the government can figure out how to do it.
    Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
  • At the very least, Liu’s technocrats have shown a skill in taking advantage of the trade crisis.
    Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Technocrats will love this device, but those working for the weekend can take a pass.
    Daniel Dumas, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2007
  • This plan, too, was written by a small group of technocrats and Western consultants close to the prince.
    chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • In Putin's Russia, the main arbiter is the state, controlled by the former Cold War spies and technocrats in his entourage.
    Fox News, 7 June 2024
  • And here right-thinking technocrats begin to whistle and look at their hands.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • If Haley were to prevail, Gallagher would be high in her list of must-hire technocrats.
    TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Barnier and his team of technocrats can only follow what’s been set down on paper.
    Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Whereas Mrs von der Leyen speaks like a technocrat, Mr Johnson speaks like a bloke telling jokes in a pub.
    The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • He was replaced by a psychopath who tanked the pound and then by Rishi, a very rich technocrat who is trying to square the circle.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Viewed as a technocrat, Mr. Mishustin has wisely refrained from speaking out about the war and isn’t seen as part of the hard-line camp.
    WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In the end, the main kibosh to federalism has come from the technocrats running the economy for Mr Duterte.
    The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Projections that don’t come to pass are one more stick to use to beat central banks and the unelected technocrats who run them.
    Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • At its heart, this is a contest between a technocrat and an activist.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Macron seems cautious not to appear as a mere technocrat.
    Benjamin Haddad, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • What are the odds that a group of nonpolitical technocrats could do a better job of reforming the tax code?
    Alan S. Blinder, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Since its inception nearly six decades ago, OPEC has been run by technocrats.
    Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • According to Baunov, there remains a small group of technocrats who would prefer something short of all-out war.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Yi Gang, China’s new central banker, known as a technocrat, mentioned the party five times in his speech.
    The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Fed’s policies are not just the realm of technocrat PhD economists who are solving math equations.
    Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The diplomats and technocrats who gave the world the Iran nuclear agreement spent thousands of hours and hundreds of days laboring over each word.
    David Eckels Wade, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The crown prince has brought with him a group of young princes, advisers, and non-royal technocrats the regime hopes will bring the kingdom in line with the demands of its young population.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2017
  • In the space of three years, Mr. Macron has climbed from a backstage role as a government technocrat to France’s youngest-ever president.
    William Horobin, WSJ, 7 May 2017
  • In other words: Yellen had one of the most successful first terms of any technocrat-in-chief in modern memory.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In a sport dominated by technocrats and strongmen, Grant showed that there was another way to coach.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Clinton was not the only person who read Breyer as a technocrat.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The loss of sovereignty to an obscure center of power in Brussels, manned by technocrats, doesn’t sit well with many Europeans either.
    Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • Other top technocrats with a say over economic policy are far more in sync with the warmongering of the Russian leader.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune Europe, 7 June 2024

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