the system
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However, more than 45 litres per person per day is still being lost from England's water network, nearly a fifth of all the water in the system.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Many creditors pushed for these changes because they felt some individuals were abusing the system.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Those costs should not be shifted onto the very people the system failed to protect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
What Snead understood was that you don’t beat the system playing by the book—at least not any book written about football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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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