sclerotic
Example Sentences
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Stupak credits Fedorov with achieving something no-one would have imagined possible ten years ago: dragging the sclerotic, rigidly inflexible military into the digital world.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
On Orcel’s side were pan-European regulators—and, crucially, hedge funds and other investors willing to back his vision to shake up Germany’s sclerotic banking scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
And there’s something appealing about an outsider crashing City Hall, which is way too beholden to sclerotic lifers who can be as clueless about what the city needs as Pratt turned out to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, with very poor demographics and a sclerotic economy, Japan is less likely to grow its way out of its debt problem than the U.S.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
The anterior half of the sclerotic is composed of a ring of some ten to seventeen cartilaginous or bony scales which partly overlap each other.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
