as in organized
following a set method, arrangement, or pattern
the first systematic effort to find witnesses to the crime systematic elimination and reintroduction of certain foods to determine what he's allergic to
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Recent Examples of systematic
Over the past year Harrods has been dealing with legal action by former female employees who accused the late Al-Fayed of systematic abuse at the store, and in his other properties around the world.
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Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
To the extent that AI’s promise to automate and improve the effectiveness of political tasks like personalized messaging, persuasion, and campaign strategy is even partially realized, this could generate a systematic advantage.
—Nathan E. Sanders, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Putting things in order Throughout the 1960s, Piaget observed that young children rely on clunky trial-and-error methods rather than systematic strategies when attempting to order objects according to some continuous quantitative dimension, like length.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
With [B]lack women’s resistance to slavery and to the systematic raping of their bodies.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025
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Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
To the extent that AI’s promise to automate and improve the effectiveness of political tasks like personalized messaging, persuasion, and campaign strategy is even partially realized, this could generate a systematic advantage.
—Nathan E. Sanders, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Putting things in order Throughout the 1960s, Piaget observed that young children rely on clunky trial-and-error methods rather than systematic strategies when attempting to order objects according to some continuous quantitative dimension, like length.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
With [B]lack women’s resistance to slavery and to the systematic raping of their bodies.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for systematic
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Justin Kelly, the Garda commissioner, told me he was encouraged by the notion that the Dubai police were no longer waiting for their European counterparts to intervene against organized criminals.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Beccuau on Sunday described it as an organized crime, saying officials hadn't ruled out possible foreign involvement, but also that investigators were treating it as a domestic case at the moment.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Jamey VanVliet, special agent in charge with the Nashville ATF office said, their job has been a very methodical and scientific process.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Oct. 2025
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The 1978 portions of the storytelling are methodical and procedural, at their very best calling to mind David Fincher’s work in Zodiac.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Dodgers, swept by the Milwaukee Brewers in the regular season series, are poised to reverse that with one more swipe of the broom on Friday night.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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The biggest piece of season 4 casting news to emerge is that Janney will be promoted to a series regular alongside Bradley Whitford, who plays Todd Penn, Grace's husband.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Systematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/systematic. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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