apparatchik

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Recent Examples of apparatchik In the intensely ideological and conformist atmosphere of today’s China, no apparatchik will depart from the safety of the party line without a clear signal from the leader. Danny Russel, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2021 Decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War ideology continues to form Western perceptions of the Eastern Bloc as a backward region, uniformly totalitarian, where everybody was either an apparatchik or a dissident. Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 Romania’s new leader after Mr. Ceausescu’s capture and execution was Ion Iliescu, a Communist apparatchik who served two terms as Romania’s first post-Communist president. Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023 To the public, Zhang had been a colorless apparatchik, distinguished in official pictures only by his military uniform, moonish features, and jet-black comb-over. Richard McGregor, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2019 See all Example Sentences for apparatchik 
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Noun
  • Not so, for minions who might break the law doing Trump's dirty work.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The first 10 minutes of the game are called the Laning Phase, and you're expected to stay in your lane and begin taking out minions and collecting souls to help your team start leveling up.
    Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In 2015, members of the Islamic State (IS) destroyed parts of the ancient city, and shortly afterwards the area saw fighting between Kurdish and IS soldiers.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Secretary of State Since winning his 2022 race by a narrow margin against a Trump-backing Big Lie adherent and QAnon sympathizer, Aguilar, a Democrat, has invested $30 million to modernize the state’s voting infrastructure.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • At its peak, Christianity in Japan boasted some 500,000 adherents, the majority of them clustered in Nagasaki.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Among the most glaring examples is Ninth Division Commander Gen. Roh Tae-gun (Park Jae-hoon, excellent), a weak-willed lackey seduced by power and greed who’s based on Roh Tae-woo, Chun’s successor as president in 1988.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Americans, beware: Putin and his lackeys are not your friends.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024

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“Apparatchik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparatchik. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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