system

Example Sentences

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Healing is impossible when the threat never stops and when schools and healthcare systems have collapsed.

From Los Angeles Times

And while health care has deteriorated badly in recent years because of shortages of medicines and equipment, it remains free — a system gasping but not abandoned.

From Salon

"You do the surgery and you change your ACL, your system, and you do a progressive recovery," he says.

From BBC

Speaking at his annual news conference before the NBA All-Star Game, commissioner Adam Silver warned that current punishments to prevent teams from gaming the system that allocates top new players are "not working."

From Barron's

"I'm chasing the companies that make those servers that go sit in those data centres, the companies that make the entire air conditioning, the water-cooling system -- the whole nine yards."

From Barron's