bureaucratic
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However, since his death in January, his wife Fiona has been caught up in a bureaucratic nightmare.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
When Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924 at age 40, he was virtually unknown; by the late 1930s he was an international phenomenon, his surname a signifier of bureaucratic inhumanity and modern unease.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Some of this is due to the complicated and sometimes bureaucratic system for making claims.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Current and former Social Security officials have told ProPublica over the past year that the SSI program’s complexities and absurdities remain perhaps the agency’s biggest bureaucratic headache.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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