Example Sentences

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It’s nothing but buck-passing middlemen in league with penny-pinching hospital executives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

These individuals, in the Times’ telling, have in turn been exploited by a network of sponsors and employers abetted by bureaucratic buck-passing.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2023

Too many agencies with limited authority allows for buck-passing that ends nowhere.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2023

That failure to act has been compounded by confusion and buck-passing among jurisdictions and providers that often won’t work together or can’t figure out how to effectively collaborate.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2022

He will criticise the "regulatory maze" - citing 29 regulators for the financial sector alone - for creating opportunities for "waste, duplication, obfuscation and buck-passing".

From BBC • May 19, 2018