systemically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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During the 2008-09 financial crisis, he served as then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s primary conduit to the CEOs of systemically important banks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
She said many Syrians were "deeply anchored" in Germany, holding systemically important jobs and with children in school.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
Of Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, a president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., who built schools — more than 5,000 nationally, eventually — for systemically disadvantaged Black students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Rather than spreading only through passive release into surrounding tissue, viruses can exploit the body's own migratory machinery to move efficiently and systemically.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
But those were momentary acts, not systemically provable acts of distraction.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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