Example Sentences

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Coco Chan, a senior digital leader of the Homes for Ukraine project, said in a blog a system built on an existing commercial platform had been replaced with one created in-house.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The closures Mr. Fryer describes are symptoms of deeper structural failure: an education and workforce training system built for a 20th-century economy, not the AI-driven, globally competitive economy of today.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Taken together, these developments point toward the gradual emergence of a parallel financial system built around crypto firms performing bank-like functions.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

“It is a system built to make people break down.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck