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bureaucracy

[byoo-rok-ruh-see] / byʊˈrɒk rə si /


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Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt erected millions of square feet of unsightly buildings on the National Mall to house an expanded federal bureaucracy during the world wars.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

During the Covid-19 pandemic, he corralled data from across the healthcare industry to build a real-time vaccine supply chain, racing to deliver before the bureaucracy reasserted itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Welsh Labour was focusing on using AI to cut bureaucracy in the public sector and building "digital infrastructure", pointing to the new "AI Growth Zones" in Wales to support wider uptake.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

It will save money by shrinking bureaucracy and eliminating duplication.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

It was a calculated risk, but now Kaz could only wait and hope that laziness and bureaucracy would do the rest.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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