system
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Now, that system is being tested in a half-dozen waterways, comprising a vast portion of global trade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz, sailors said, risks becoming a graveyard for a trading system so integral to the modern economy that most consumers, accustomed to cheap imports and three-day shipping, take it for granted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the situation was "not students' fault", and that many institutions had let them down "through either incompetence or abuse of the system".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
When powerful industries "lash out like this", Ahmed said, "it is the sound of a system under pressure."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The other seemed to be a part of a system of interlocking gears.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing system
Word Generation Science - Scientific Thinking
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