sclerotic

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She was elected in October on her promise to revitalize Japan’s sclerotic economy and to bring down food inflation, which eclipsed 7% last year.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

“I think political institutions become very sclerotic and very consensus-orientated, and you have to be very careful of political consensus,” Mr. Rees-Mogg says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

He spoke at length about the Pentagon’s top-heavy bureaucracy, its resistance to innovation, and the need for outsiders, especially from Silicon Valley, to overhaul the sclerotic weapons-procurement process.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2025

God knows, having worked a whole career in government, I understood their critique of its baroque and sclerotic routines.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2024

Aneurysms, single or multiple, have been found in the arteries of children, and even the pulmonary artery may show sclerotic changes.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall