system

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When Uefa devised this system, it believed the idea of 11 teams from one country qualifying for Europe was so far-fetched as to be barely worth mentioning.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The system successfully identified a variety of rock types that are important for planetary science.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Bass said that based on her conversations with officers, “the internal part of the disciplinary system has gotten a little better.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“Many of these individuals are effectively prisoners of bureaucratic incompetence, inaction, and indecision, held in place not by law, but by a system that has failed to move.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

I don’t know much about the way the internet works, but having the name must be enough for her to pull up the address in their system.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy