How to Use technocratic in a Sentence

technocratic

adjective

• The lobby floor of the Amygdala office is out of a technocratic sci-fi movie (the future is here!
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
• And blacks aren’t moved by his progressivism in a technocratic guise.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 June 2019
• There’s more to managing than being a technocratic clerk in servitude to the geeks.
  — Joe McCarthy*, Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
• As such, secretaries of state tend to be more technocratic and civic-minded.
  — Maresa Strano, Time, 20 Nov. 2022
• The engineer looking at the screens in Hayek’s analogy is not a member of the technocratic elite locked up in a control room.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Along the way, the notion that a decision on the more technocratic ECB boss would be kept apart from the political jobs was abandoned.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Vallas has tried to portray himself as a technocratic problem-solver who can best run the city out of the nine-candidate field.
  — Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• Why not, then, look to technocratic Caesars like Moses to browbeat the opposition and get things done?
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• His is a technocratic party, the voters of which care about the nuances of government action and for which wonkery is an asset.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 July 2022
• What if a series of technocratic tweaks and training could make the police 72 percent less savage?
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
• Instead, for the most part, the Dodd-Frank Act was classically technocratic.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• His dry and technocratic political style might just have won him over to Germans looking for a steady hand.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2021
• In that case, Macron might have to search for a prime minister on the hard left or, to form a technocratic government, somewhere else entirely.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 July 2024
• Mr Duque, his protégé, is less strident and more technocratic.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• And that means Democrats need to think bigger than technocratic tinkering.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• Putin's approach in his next term will be to create a more technocratic elite; appoint people who are younger, more efficient in his eyes.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• Yet the Republican bill is not a technocratic fix for these problems.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• But in recent months, al-Sadr has pressed for the creation of a non-religious, technocratic government.
  — Vivienne Walt, Time, 14 May 2018
• And despite a perennial fear of a technocratic future, robots haven’t nearly caught up to us yet.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
• But the over-all record of technocratic innovations like the Afghan Fund is not encouraging.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
• Such technocratic language must have sounded feeble next to the angry pleas of the residents and the political red meat served up by their lawyers.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• If technocratic future-fantasies of labor and housing are cause for chagrin, so too are those of wealth transfer.
  — Julianne Tveten, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
• At the same time, a technocratic cabinet will lay the groundwork for rebuilding the economy.
  — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• Of course the paper is written in a somewhat dry technocratic style and is designed to pull punches rather than grab readers’ attention.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Macron, the front-runner in the French election, speaks in a technocratic vocabulary with long-winded sentences.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• Still, Warren also has fans in the center of the party who respect her technocratic, policy-wonk style.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 28 June 2019
• And the ineluctable fact that nations battle hard over resources such as multibillion-dollar piles of cash is one reason that clever technocratic designs like the Afghan Fund have failed in the past.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
• The fact that the 88-year-old is expected to stay on as head of the new technocratic Palestinian government is likely to be controversial.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
• Both men were the faces of Putin’s Covid response efforts, and are seen as some of the more moderate, technocratic voices that have maintained their positions in the Kremlin orbit.
  — Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
• Other leaders might not have instigated the Oct. 7 attack, preferring to focus on technocratic matters of governance, Mr. al-Awawdeh said.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 12 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024