Thesaurus results for SYSTEMS

systems

noun

plural of system

as in networks

something made up of many interdependent or related parts the national highway system allows travel from one end of the country to the other the democratic system of checks and balances in government

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as in strategies

a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective if you're going to wrap all these presents in one afternoon, you'll need a system

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as in methods

the means or procedure for doing something not the best system perhaps, but it gets the job done

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Recent Examples of systems By August 2017, its systems were able to beat the world's top players of Dota 2, a multi-player action game. —

Ashley Capoot,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 18 May 2026 Instead of applying judgment to each decision, apply it upstream to the principles, constraints, and feedback mechanisms that govern how your systems behave. —

Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 All the while, North Korea has been promoting a long list of military developments, from new missile, rocket and artillery systems to new warships and submarines. —

Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 17 May 2026 Most are somewhere in the middle — a legacy platform that’s been in place too long, data scattered across systems that don’t quite line up, an IT team that’s spent more of the last five years keeping things running than rebuilding them. —

Dennis Woodside, Fortune, 17 May 2026 The system improves the warfighter’s ability to detect and defeat the threat of unmanned aerial systems on the modern battlefield. —

Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 Ductless mini-split systems use more energy-efficient inverter technology and can run at varying speeds as needed. —

Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2026 Design engineer Callie Gillespie tells Robb Report that the craft features larger trim tab systems that deploy further downwards to create a wave that billows out from behind. —

Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024 This grant will be housed at George Mason University and focus on undergraduate and graduate research in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems security, secure cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructure, next-generation wireless networks, and cybersecurity for smart manufacturing. —

Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024

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Gutfeld, however, has the major advantage of airing in the earlier primetime window, where more viewers are simply awake and tuning in across all networks.

— Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Built from complex networks of sometimes more than 100 different types of neurons, retinal tissue consumes two to three times more energy than the same mass of typical brain tissue.

— Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026