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- n people elected or appointed to administer a government
- The cartels' ability to infiltrate officialdom has grown so convincing that many Mexicans have trouble believing the government's assertion that a fiery Learjet crash this month on .
- That's quite a sentence, with a sort of anti-officialdom, let-freedom-ring sound to it.
- Shadowed by the hoodlums of the corrupt local officialdom, beset by his own furies, Firmin hurtles himself, annotating his fall all the while, into a pit of suffering.