APPARATCHIKS Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

apparatchiks

noun

variants also apparatchiki

plural of apparatchik

as in minions

disapproving a very loyal member of an organization (such as a company or political party) who always obeys orders party apparatchiks

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Recent Examples of apparatchiks Xi’s brand of resentful nationalism, meanwhile, comes with a strong anti-American streak, and security apparatchiks see CIA spies everywhere. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026 This agitprop is vomited out 24/7 by Democrat media apparatchiks who were also unerringly described by Orwell in his novel 1984. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025 The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity. — Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026

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For example, a group of minions might be pretending to fight a group of Vikings on a movie set, or enough alien spaceships to fill the entire screen appear and shoot their lasers at once.

— Parents, Parents, 1 July 2026
And minions have taken over Wendy’s frosty machines with a new banana flavor.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

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The remains of two Army soldiers who went missing while off duty from military exercises in Morocco were recovered in May, according to the Army.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
The soldiers went missing on May 2 near the Cap Draa Training Area near the city of Tan Tan in southwestern Morocco, USA TODAY previously reported.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 30 June 2026

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