How to Use bureaucratic in a Sentence

bureaucratic

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 public outcry against this bureaucratic meddling was swift and forceful. ...
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
• The city had planned to add the new staff many months ago, but only two of 44 workers have been hired because of bureaucratic hurdles and the need to negotiate details of the new positions with labor unions.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• Walking the streets of downtown Buenos Aires, the bloated bureaucratic state of Argentina is on full display, working overtime to push Massa over the finish line.
  — David Unsworth, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2023
• The most powerful barriers to the movement of people are not physical, of course, but bureaucratic.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• The city and Union Pacific have been embroiled in a years-long bureaucratic battle over who is supposed to clean up the tracks, leaving residents with no clear target for their complaints.
  — Andrew Dubbins, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
• And many more of us are going to have to take responsibility for that happening, and sweat the boring, bureaucratic details.
  — Jennifer Pahlka, Time, 27 June 2023
• The time-intensive, bureaucratic process left many with debt and incomplete or worthless degrees.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• This is how the monument madness ends — with bureaucratic squabbles, the moral arguments, so-called, long since discarded.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
• Winning bureaucratic, legislative, or even legal battles is not the same as winning the country.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean Google can rid itself of bureaucratic obstacles as easily.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
• The time-intensive, bureaucratic process left many with debt for incomplete or worthless degrees.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2023
• To apply for a work visa in the United States is to set out on a biblical odyssey through a glacial, bureaucratic process renowned for its voracious appetite for complex and expensive paperwork.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• To carry out this expansive program, the firm built a complex bureaucratic org chart, with a host of departments and layers of presidents and vice presidents.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024