bureaucratic
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Artists, she noted wryly, often prove difficult to categorize within bureaucratic systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“An officer could simply invent an accusation of criminality, leaving the green-card holder trapped in a bureaucratic twilight zone for years before they have a chance to rebut the accusation at a hearing,” Mark writes.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
And asking borrowers and bondholders to rewrite debt contracts in return for a one-year pause would complicate the already difficult job of debt managers and tax their limited bureaucratic capacity to deal with state-contingent flows.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Earlier this year Greece's tourism minister said she did not want visitors to be "burdened" by bureaucratic procedures when entering or leaving the country.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Its walls were painted with a postwar bureaucratic gray.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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