How to Use systematic in a Sentence

systematic

adjective
  • We used a systematic approach to solve the problem.
  • She made a systematic study of the evidence.
  • All the places where systematic abuse can exist come up, too.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 13 Dec. 2019
  • And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a mass scale.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Again that goes to a systematic problem that needs to be addressed at some point.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2020
  • By the way, being systematic (a good thing) is not the same as being rigid.
    Marc Gerstein, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • His questions and systematic approach forced me to think about deals in new ways.
    Mike Koenigs, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The process must be both systematic and scalable.
    Rachel Lyubovitzky, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One free of systematic struggle and instead filled with joy and ease.
    Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But there's no right to make your neighbors sick in predictable and systematic ways.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Seeing that as one of the systematic issues to a lot of problems hit me at a younger age.
    J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The board did not have a systematic process for handling complaints.
    Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The past two decades have seen civil war, mass killings, systematic gang-rape and a vile scramble for loot.
    The Economist, 13 July 2019
  • But there is also a systematic way to determine whether the risk is worth it.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
  • Two out of three had no systematic way to recruit qualified staff and vet new hires.
    Kim Brimhall, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • This new study presents a systematic, cell-by-cell analysis.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The capital had been more or less spared from waves of systematic outages.
    David Hickey, NBC news, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Aquinas, on the other hand, was too systematic, at least in his scholastic writings.
    John Byron Kuhner, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Very systematic, a hard-working — call it a workaholic.
    Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There is no evidence of systematic voter fraud in even a single swing state, let alone in all of them.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Countries next needed to act on the data in a systematic way to quash locusts.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The team credits its find in part to systematic research efforts.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019
  • But will that translate to systematic usage, and to what degree?
    David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The systematic warp and weft of the loom, after all, was the template for the first computer.
    Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Adams had been systematic about his directing path.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In the face of such vast suffering, their only option is to be systematic.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Casagrande, for one, thinks the systematic collection of data would help.
    New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The purges in the armed forces were systematic, rooting out whole units and conducting yearly roundups.
    New York Times, 3 Apr. 2021
  • There seemed to be consensus that a shift in the estate tax arena might be one of the more systematic ways to raise revenue.
    Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The key is to be specific, sincere and systematic in your approach.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021

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