bureaucracies
- plural of bureaucracy.
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Has the office served its purpose, or has it lingered one bureaucracy layered on top of a bunch of other bureaucracies, as some critics foresaw?
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
It is a long process that often involves contending with local bureaucracies and dueling with community opposition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
But organized grassroots movements have the power to challenge these lethal bureaucracies, whether at home or abroad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Committees and bureaucracies can limit AI, but they cannot create meaningful value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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