as in governmental
of, relating to, or like a nonelective government official or body of government officials
a bureaucratic institution bureaucratic procedures
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That color is more than readers get in most large-canvas stories set against the backdrop of bureaucratic Washington, D.C.
Oney is a former staffer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Los Angeles magazine who wrote the book And the Dead Shall Rise about the lynching of Leo Frank.
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
March 12, 2025 Getting a big, bureaucratic organization to innovate or adopt new technologies is hard.
—Harvard Business Review, 12 Mar. 2025
Democrats saw new technologies and emerging sectors in finance and telecommunications as an opportunity to finally rid the country of the bureaucratic forms that had defined much of the century.
—Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made By History, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
While many successful industries celebrate greatness and individual stories, why is the architecture architecture community downplaying individuals and advocating for itself as a cog in neutral, bureaucratic machinations?
—Matt Shaw, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
March 12, 2025 Getting a big, bureaucratic organization to innovate or adopt new technologies is hard.
—Harvard Business Review, 12 Mar. 2025
Democrats saw new technologies and emerging sectors in finance and telecommunications as an opportunity to finally rid the country of the bureaucratic forms that had defined much of the century.
—Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made By History, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
While many successful industries celebrate greatness and individual stories, why is the architecture architecture community downplaying individuals and advocating for itself as a cog in neutral, bureaucratic machinations?
—Matt Shaw, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Bureaucratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucratic. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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