systemic
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Such arguments are meant to pare down complicated, systemic issues into a series of individual choices.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Cybersecurity stocks surged on Sept. 14 after prominent AI industry figures warned about the systemic risks posed by frontier models and called for a slower pace of development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Feminist dystopian fiction offers another counterpoint: bleak speculative narratives can make systemic problems—including misogyny, violence against women, gender inequality and threats to reproductive rights—more visible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The report from an investigative committee headed by a retired senior civil servant found "systemic and institutional failure" which meant what began as an electrical spark became a "catastrophe".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
He starts by talking about his experience growing up Black in Mississippi and moves on to talk about systemic racism and how we don’t even realize how embedded it is in our world.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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