How to Use apparatchik in a Sentence

apparatchik

noun
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  • To them, 1989 was an immoral deal as most apparatchiks got off scot-free.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • So was Kellyanne Conway, who is now a White House apparatchik.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 19 July 2017
  • Xi was setting out on the classic career path of an up-and-coming apparatchik.
    — Richard McGregor, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile Soviet apparatchiks who run the plant refuse to admit the scale of the disaster.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 4 May 2019
  • Perhaps that last detail is why the president and his media apparatchiks are slamming The Dossier so hard.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Other new numbers go to Gleb (Jason Michael Evans), the communist apparatchik who has replaced the villains from the movie.
    — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The enthusiasm of tech moguls for Mr. Xi’s planning ideas could rapidly wane if party apparatchiks start calling the shots on their boards.
    — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Liberals and the Soviet apparatchiks fought over its memory, and Ms Alexievich was on the front lines.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • So divisive had the issue been that party apparatchiks agreed in advance to mute their reactions to the result.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • His father, Vitaliy, was a top Communist Party apparatchik in the city.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Cecsarini’s Cecil is tired and dour, a humorless apparatchik who pulls strings.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Distant, out-of-touch private managers could simply be replaced by distant, out-of-touch public bosses or by party apparatchiks.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • The 89-year-old is expected to be replaced by his handpicked successor, President Miguel Díaz-Canel, a longtime party apparatchik.
    — José De Córdoba, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
  • So even though the Armando Iannucci political satire was just days from its Russian premiere, the opening of a comedy about bloodthirsty apparatchiks still felt like a long shot.
    — Andrew Roth, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
  • That moment of sharp relief, a clash with an intransigent foreign apparatchik by a young American president feeling his own way, comes to life in released on Wednesday.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The patronage networks that his father established have been swept away, and a new generation of apparatchiks who owe their loyalty entirely to Kim have been installed.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The president’s early endorsement of the establishment apparatchik Luther Strange always seemed more like a forced concession than a demonstration of true feeling.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The regime conducts its ritualistic elections, and apparatchiks like Hassan Rouhani lead a bloated state drowning in corruption.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Many managers live in terror of arrest since the Maduro regime purged the industry, imprisoning officials from low-level apparatchiks to former oil ministers.
    — Bloomberg, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The entire Giuliani-Ukraine affair is only the latest example of a White House apparatchik who’s willing to sell out his country’s interests for an electoral advantage necessary to sustain the grift.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2019
  • A former state House speaker, Tillis is a reliable Republican apparatchik whose vote party leadership can count on.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Politico's Lili Bayer likened Orban's tenure to an earlier era of Communist apparatchiks.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In the Polish People’s Republic, verdicts were routinely dictated by a phone call from an apparatchik at party headquarters.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Too many of its officials have become political apparatchiks, fearful of making decisions that anger their superiors and too removed and haughty when dealing with the public to admit mistakes and learn from them.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Congressional leaders would want to be remembered as statesmen, not apparatchiks.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Would Trump behave like a Soviet apparatchik if a Chernobyl-sized national emergency happened?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 June 2019
  • To his critics, the arrangement has made Kirill far more than another apparatchik, oligarch or enabler of Mr. Putin, but an essential part of the nationalist ideology at the heart of the Kremlin’s expansionist designs.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • In response, some Cubans are flexing their digital muscles, tweeting complaints and daily concerns directly to senior apparatchiks.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • Through her decades-long career in government, Lam has excelled at pleasing those above her, swiftly transitioning from a hardworking colonial subject during British rule to China’s loyal apparatchik.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
  • At the party headquarters one recent morning, young experts with doctorates from some of the world’s best universities rubbed shoulders with smoking, cursing party apparatchiks, as three Greek Orthodox priests visited.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2019

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