How to Use systemic in a Sentence

systemic

adjective

• The problem seems to be systemic.
• The company made some systemic changes to the way it operated.
• These people have a proxy to power and can help drive systemic change.
  — Julie Kratz, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Stephanie Land has many things to be mad about, most of them the result of the systemic oppression and erasure of poor people.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The noise around systemic violence against Black people has been heightened, to say the least, since the murder of George Floyd.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Mayorkas, 64, now faces two charges from the House: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• There are structural, systemic issues that have to be addressed, too.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• This can be done by using a systemic insecticide through a soil drench.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
• To organize and fight for systemic change, to be bold and unapologetic.
  — Crystal Echo Hawk, ELLE, 23 June 2023
• Of course, this initiative cannot be left for too long without more systemic support.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
• There’s widespread agreement about the systemic problems: Defendants can sit in jail for months at a time without a lawyer.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Weimar Republic was certainly burdened by severe systemic flaws, and a strong case can be made that it was doomed from birth.
  — Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• Three women surprised their friend, who has systemic lupus, by running the NYC Marathon in her honor.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The easiest way is to apply a systemic insecticide as a soil drench.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2023
• Even though one of the country’s systemic institutions came close to failure, banks still stashed away a record amount in profits from lending.
  — Bastian Benrath, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
• Bringing the two rivals together was not without its struggles, but pressure to stave off a systemic crisis won out in the end.
  — Ashley Capoot, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• That is caused by systemic barriers that to this day persist in the face of ongoing attempts to render the American scene far more just.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 30 June 2023
• But some politicians maintain that the killings were isolated and not a systemic problem within the military.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• My main point is that there has been a systemic eradication of all the routes that third parties can take, which is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• Meeting the moment means ushering in systemic change, experts said — not merely putting pink on brochures.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• And within and beyond the walls of the office, no one in America has more systemic privilege than white cisgender men.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
• But the program itself still faced systemic challenges in the television landscape, where more than half of all viewing is now on streaming platforms.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Sick mouth, sick body The list of connections between oral health and systemic health—conditions that affect the entire body—is remarkable.
  — Lola Butcher, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• People are made to feel guilty for not doing self-care when there are real systemic pressures making that difficult.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• Together the evidence reveals a systemic practice where Israeli ground forces have advanced across the Gaza Strip.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Penetrant fungicides are systemic and are absorbed by the plant into plant tissue.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Coons said complaints have recently been more complex and systemic than in previous years.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Sadat and her family are Shia, a minority Muslim sect that has faced systemic violence at the hands of the Taliban.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 29 June 2023
• Homeowners have the option of using a systemic pesticide to keep the insects at bay, but once the beetles arrive, pesticides won’t kill them, Shaw said.
  — oregonlive, 29 July 2023
• But advocates of the new measures say their point is not perfect accounting, but rather to force more of the transparency needed to start tackling a systemic challenge.
  — WIRED, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024