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Recent Examples of bureaucratese
Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
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Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
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Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2020
As reporter Alfonso Chardy noted at the time, the facility’s mental health treatment center—known in placid bureaucratese as the Krome Transitional Unit (KTU)—had never before been shown to the media.
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Ken Silverstein,
The New Republic,
19 Aug. 2019
Graff, a magazine journalist, delights in describing these hideaways (whose existence was first revealed in the 1990s) and the plans for using them; as a result, his narrative sometimes gets bogged down in elaborate, acronym-laden bureaucratese.
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Justin Vogt,
New York Times,
16 June 2017
Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
—
Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2020
As reporter Alfonso Chardy noted at the time, the facility’s mental health treatment center—known in placid bureaucratese as the Krome Transitional Unit (KTU)—had never before been shown to the media.
—
Ken Silverstein,
The New Republic,
19 Aug. 2019
Graff, a magazine journalist, delights in describing these hideaways (whose existence was first revealed in the 1990s) and the plans for using them; as a result, his narrative sometimes gets bogged down in elaborate, acronym-laden bureaucratese.
—
Justin Vogt,
New York Times,
16 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bureaucratese
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The telehealth company itself is, in legalese, only a management service organization.
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On Wednesday, a three-judge panel gave the FCC 30 days to respond to that effort, known in legalese as a writ of mandamus.
Noun
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This dumbed-down Goebbels gobbledygook revived talking points that Habermas had tried to quash during the Historikerstreit.
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But at least some of it was gobbledygook.
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“Bureaucratese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucratese. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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