How to Use system in a Sentence
system
noun
- The players like the coach's system.
- Under the new system, students will have to pass an exam to graduate.
- She devised a new filing system.
- We need a better system for handling incoming e-mail.
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The mass of the entire system is just 16 times that of the Sun.
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Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo,
Quartz,
3 Apr. 2024
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The message to the whole system is, don't try anything.
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CBS News,
27 Aug. 2023
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And so that’s going to take time to figure out who’s the new you in that system.
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Andrew Greif,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Nov. 2023
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Don’t wait for the scam alert system the IRS is working to set up by next year.
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Michelle Singletary,
Washington Post,
3 Apr. 2024
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And what are your thoughts on going fare free system wide?
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Brian Amaral,
BostonGlobe.com,
21 July 2023
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The majority of the drug is out of one's system after about 10 to 12 hours.
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Sasha Hupka,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Apr. 2024
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Betts hit the ball hard, batting .316 in Boston’s farm system.
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Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2023
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For the first time, Apple will need to allow third-party app stores and billing systems in the region.
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Mark Gurman,
Bloomberg.com,
12 Dec. 2023
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How the Iron Dome system works: Iron Dome can detect and engage rockets up to 40 miles away.
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George Petras,
USA TODAY,
15 Apr. 2024
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Problems with the toll road and the collection system surfaced months ago.
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Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2024
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In the years leading up to the year 2000, rumors swirled about a bug that would wreak havoc on computer systems around the world.
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Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2024
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For years this multipart system worked great for both sides.
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Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
2 Feb. 2024
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But what could be powering a vent system strong enough to heat an entire ocean?
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WIRED,
24 Dec. 2023
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The tires bounced in accordance with the truck’s suspension system.
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Anna Wiener,
The New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2024
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An ancient river system from the era when the bottom of the world was ice-free is buried more than a mile deep below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
3 Nov. 2023
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Most transfers currently run on old systems that take hours, or even days, to process the money.
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Nicole Goodkind,
CNN,
10 July 2023
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Despite concerns that the stunt might damage the exhaust system, the video shows the fries shooting out of the car's exhaust pipe and soaring into the sky.
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Stepheny Price,
Fox News,
11 Dec. 2023
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Second, a plant grown from a cutting will have a more developed root system.
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Chris McKeown,
The Enquirer,
29 Apr. 2023
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The banking system hemorrhaged deposits for more than a year.
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Eric Wallerstein,
WSJ,
10 July 2023
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The store had switched from an official payroll system to paper checks from Jones.
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Andrea Klick,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2024
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They’re found in hundreds of household items and in drinking water systems and are thought to be in the blood of 98% of the human population.
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Jen Christensen,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2024
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Which led to a more organized game check out system and an entirely new menu.
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oregonlive,
3 Aug. 2023
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And she’s expanded her focus from biases to the harms caused by systems more broadly.
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Brian Merchant,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Nov. 2023
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Google binds app developers who sell digital items in the Play store to use its billing system and pockets up to 30 percent of sales.
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Paresh Dave,
WIRED,
12 Dec. 2023
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Portland made it to 84 degrees Tuesday with a little cooling help from an upper low system that brushed by the region.
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oregonlive,
17 May 2023
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Despite suffering from dyslexia and a childhood spent in the foster care system, Trent is able to solve cases others can’t due to his unique point of view.
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Joe Otterson,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2024
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