sclerotic
Example Sentences
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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
“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
His classic “The Painter of Modern Life,” advocating for upending art’s sclerotic monotony, appeared in three profoundly influential installments of the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
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
The sclerotic states of the appendix vermiformis in man and of the human liver are, as Kiernan has shown, two excellent illustrations of the degeneracies last described.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
