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bureaucratic

[byoor-uh-krat-ik] / ˌbyʊər əˈkræt ɪk /








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Olga Kefalogianni said the Greek government did not want visitors to be "burdened" by bureaucratic procedures when entering or leaving the country.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Some of this is due to the complicated and sometimes bureaucratic system for making claims.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

A year on, much of the planned $584 billion infrastructure plan remains unspent, locked behind bureaucratic bottlenecks set up to guard against excessive spending in the notoriously frugal country.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

No doubt that would violate bureaucratic rules and air-quality standards, and also might suggest some troubling historical comparisons.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Early Egyptian hieroglyphs recorded religious and state propaganda and bureaucratic accounts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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