the system
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During the 2025-26 storm season, the Public Works Department estimated the system captured as much water as 3.3 million Angelenos use in a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The paper explains that when a customer goes to pay, the system, which is powered by online bank Revolut, checks their biometrics against those provided when they first signed up.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
My two eldest graduated from a school system that required Regents exams—subject-matter competency tests that measure students’ baseline proficiency and stress-test whether the system itself is serving students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
With that model, they could test how the system might respond when particular neurons were altered.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
In this chapter, we shall see how the system of mass incarceration actually works.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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