How to Use sclerotic in a Sentence

sclerotic

adjective
  • Of course the regulators will spring to the defense of their sclerotic wards but the tide is unlikely to be stemmed.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That opened the way for gradual change in the sclerotic government.
    Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
  • Forcing households to prop up the sclerotic state banking system, on top of the weak labor market, isn’t helping.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Buckley wrote his exposé of Yale’s slouch toward fat, sclerotic, nihilism du jour in 1951.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
  • It’s got a sclerotic ruling class personified by the frumpy and mediocre Mutti and a midwit named Olaf.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
  • This sclerotic process has doomed most fintech attempts.
    Matt Hougan, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The people who dream of a better world are up against a sclerotic and undemocratic system helmed by people who tell us things can’t be better.
    Colette Shade, The New Republic, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The estrangement of mother and son is inherited along with all the other trappings of the sclerotic upper class.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Virtually no one feels the urgency or has the clout to reform a sclerotic system.
    Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Change comes slowly to the Senate, a sclerotic institution that still has a pair of spittoons on the floor because, well, tradition.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Museums in Italy, owned and controlled by the state, have been infested with politics and sclerotic because of it.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Mr Abbas’s corrupt, sclerotic government has spent much of the past decade feuding not with Israel but with its own people.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • President Obama was awkwardly brought back to the White House to bolster support for his sclerotic health plan.
    orlandosentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The nerves develop scars or sclerotic lesions (sclerosis is Greek for hard) in the aftermath of such attacks.
    Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 18 June 2015
  • Necrotic has a bad smell and destroys the surrounding tissue, and sclerotic exhibits scar tissue.
    Bartie Scott, Teen Vogue, 23 Aug. 2018
  • But from the start it’s been clear the sclerotic distrust between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators isn’t misplaced.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The streets became less sclerotic, cars moved more fluidly, the air grew cleaner, and money flowed toward public transit.
    Curbed, 31 May 2023
  • At his start, some of his biotech colleagues praised him as a visionary, an outsider shaking up an industry that had grown sclerotic at its highest ranks.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Bud Selig’s sclerotic approach to leadership ensured that any problem facing the game would go unresolved for at least a year or two, festering in the process.
    Si.com Staff, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • To be sure, France’s sclerotic welfare and regulatory state has stymied growth.
    Eliora Katz, WSJ, 2 July 2017
  • In fact the evidence suggests that, as America’s economy has become more sclerotic, big firms have been able to count on cranking out high profits for longer.
    The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • In 2015, when King Salman took the throne, the nation was ossifying, its royal court and bureaucracy bloated, sclerotic and by the accounts of many Saudis, deeply corrupt.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • And time is running out for that sclerotic body to pass any major laws before next year, when Democrats will almost surely lose their governing trifecta.
    Wired, 22 July 2022
  • The result is both greater inequality, and a more sclerotic economy.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Since the 1990s, Italian leaders have tried to overhaul the country’s sclerotic economy while also running tight budgets.
    Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 3 May 2021
  • This year's UNGA week was a near perfect encapsulation of the sclerotic nature of politics in 2019.
    Julia Horowitz and Mark Thompson, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The sclerotic agency is struggling to meet surging demand for Real ID licenses that will be needed to board domestic flights starting in 2020.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The event proved the power of civil action in the face of a sclerotic authoritarian government and forced changes to building codes that are believed to have prevented many structures from collapse this time.
    Elisabeth Malkin, Marina Franco and Albinson Linares, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Since the fall of Mobutu in 1997, Congo has been racked by conflict, and its sclerotic centralized government has failed to diversify the economy to insulate it from price fluctuations.
    Nicolas Niarchos, The New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The Pentagon, for its part, must fix its sclerotic, parochial, and bureaucratic acquisition processes, which are especially anachronistic in an era when agility, flexibility, and speed matter more than ever.
    Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023

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