bureaucratic

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Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

In an earlier post, he blamed "bureaucratic problems" for holding up his plans to modernise the armed forces' equipment and their aircraft.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

On its face, the policy sounds like a bureaucratic fix to a real problem.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

What seemed a bureaucratic adjustment was in fact a strategic game-changer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

He was a battle-hardened bureaucratic fighter whose career in federal service had been launched with his appointment to the New Deal’s Tennessee Valley Authority.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik