How to Use bureaucratic in a Sentence

bureaucratic

adjective
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  • And to, of course, keep them snarled in bureaucratic red tape.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
  • And yet the heavy hand of the bureaucratic status quo had to make its presence known.
    — Deborah Padgett, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
  • This means for every $1 spent on building, $0.40 is lost to the bureaucratic process.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But if the same old bureaucratic hurdles stand in the way of access to those programs, no one wins.
    — Andrew Heath, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In short, bureaucratic hurdles got in the way, though there’s hope that at least some of the chargers will go online next year.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Shoigu, more of a behind-the-scenes bureaucratic player than a public brawler like Prigozhin, came up with a plan to put Prigozhin in his place.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
  • Even then, the process took about 15 years of bureaucratic wrangling and court appeals.
    — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • But for the LooksRare duo, that’s bureaucratic Web2 stuff.
    — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But any crimes involved are about bureaucratic sloth, and how some of the women are treated.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • There are people in this state trying to churn the wheels of progress, but the buildup of bureaucratic rust and egos is making this a difficult task.
    — Al Topich Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Seth knows bureaucratic union rules and gory details about vampires but can’t shoot a gun.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Both red states and blue states are accused in this bureaucratic nightmare.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • While the bureaucratic hurdles can be substantial, many migrants do make it through the process.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In this bureaucratic city, that counts as a happy ending.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
  • One of the reasons for that was because of the bureaucratic process that delays everything.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But in bureaucratic or short-staffed environments, even six months to a year of notice may not be long enough.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Still, due to bureaucratic hurdles, the process could take between a few months to several years.
    — Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
  • This bureaucratic process has ramped up over the past two years as part of an effort to save money and retain patients within the VA, records show.
    — USA Today, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Who would sit through days of bureaucratic meetings just to observe?
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
  • Witnesses said the long delays were caused by bureaucratic hurdles on both sides of the border.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Don’t test bureaucratic matters; just deal with them and press forward.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The projects are expensive, the rules can be complex and the bureaucratic hurdles can be dauntingly high.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But landlords say the guarantee of partial payment is not enough to endure the yards of bureaucratic red tape.
    — Abby Vesoulis, Time, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The answer, as many locals are already too aware, is bureaucratic red tape.
    — Christopher Calton, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Vera de Aponte is one of thousands of immigrants who have lost their jobs -- or are on the cusp of losing them -- due to bureaucratic delays.
    — Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
  • For once, the task may simply be too big for the financial and bureaucratic resources available to the government.
    — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This duck and cover would be the equivalent of killing the project—and would betray the many bureaucratic professionals who approved it.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Voters were fed up with the endless bureaucratic demands placed on the country and felt that its rules had been chipping away at British sovereignty.
    — Ben Evansky, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • These mechanisms were deployed to protect bureaucratic interests, guard against reputational harm, and distance donors who backed proxy forces from the responsibility for the actions of those forces.
    — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Lee, in announcing the postponement on Monday, said OGE had not completed its review, criticizing a bureaucratic delay.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025

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