How to Use technocratic in a Sentence
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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 -
Sensible Centrist Before the left’s surprise advance in the runoff vote on Sunday, the prospect of a hung parliament had raised the question of whether France could have an apolitical, technocratic government.
— Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024 -
Macron now faces governing challenges, potentially needing to collaborate with a coalition or technocratic government and a left-wing prime minister.
— Abid Ali, CNBC, 10 July 2024
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