How to Use bureaucratic in a Sentence

bureaucratic

adjective

• But even what should be a simple bureaucratic step has been complicated.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
• The tiniest bureaucratic hiccup could have ended it all.
  — Deepali Jamwal, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• But the program had been plagued by bureaucratic delays, with some applicants waiting years for their papers to be processed.
  — NBC News, 1 Sep. 2021
• Buscaino, who voted for the anti-camping law, nevertheless contends that the process will be too slow and bureaucratic to provide meaningful progress.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• His characters’ violence is impersonal, bureaucratic, and rule-bound (or pointedly in excess of their license, as in the case of the cop).
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Trump repeatedly expressed concerns that the process of clearing home sites would drag on in bureaucratic red tape.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
• What's next: Look for executive orders on Trump's first day that launch time-consuming bureaucratic work to loosen restrictions.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Feb 2025