How to Use bureaucratic in a Sentence

bureaucratic

adjective

• Seth knows bureaucratic union rules and gory details about vampires but can’t shoot a gun.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• Even then, the process took about 15 years of bureaucratic wrangling and court appeals.
  — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• Most people are there to fill out forms and pay fees for various bureaucratic duties that the agency undertakes.
  — Matt McFarland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
• Behind a row of stark, bureaucratic desks, rifles and ammunition belts hung from otherwise bare walls.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• The new efforts also still leave questions about other bureaucratic hurdles that have snagged the monkeypox response so far.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022
• The complex bureaucratic dispute has gone on since the town conducted a promotional exam in 2019.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 answer, as many locals are already too aware, is bureaucratic red tape.
  — Christopher Calton, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Here, jokes about the city’s storied landmarks and its bureaucratic bottlenecks help ground some of the sitcom’s headier themes.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• Arthur, by his own admission, finds leading the Atlantis high council to be a bureaucratic snooze.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• This is true even beyond the bureaucratic corridors of the United Nations.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2023
• Having that piece of paper in her hands marked the end of a bureaucratic saga for the family and the beginning of possibilities.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• The screens transform into a blue sky seen from a barrel-rolling jet, nightfall over a Wyoming ranch, a bank of bureaucratic fluorescents.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• The bureaucratic logjam forced many high school seniors to make one of the most important decisions of their lives on a far tighter deadline than usual.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
• Decisions can be made without passing quarterly board reviews; managers needn’t battle bureaucratic minutiae.
  — Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2024
• Health advocacy groups have raised concerns that Californians could be losing Medi-Cal unnecessarily because of bureaucratic hangups.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024