How to Use systematic in a Sentence

systematic

adjective
  • We used a systematic approach to solve the problem.
  • She made a systematic study of the evidence.
  • The first systematic use of fingerprints in the U.S. dates back to 1902 – a year before the West case.
    — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a mass scale.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • By the way, being systematic (a good thing) is not the same as being rigid.
    — Marc Gerstein, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The systematic warp and weft of the loom, after all, was the template for the first computer.
    — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Seeing that as one of the systematic issues to a lot of problems hit me at a younger age.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Again that goes to a systematic problem that needs to be addressed at some point.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2020
  • His questions and systematic approach forced me to think about deals in new ways.
    — Mike Koenigs, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • Cohen is a key witness in the case, in which Trump and others are accused of years of systematic fraud.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • All the places where systematic abuse can exist come up, too.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The board did not have a systematic process for handling complaints.
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • One free of systematic struggle and instead filled with joy and ease.
    — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But there's no right to make your neighbors sick in predictable and systematic ways.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 31 Oct. 2021
  • With the intuitive Moon moving through your systematic 6th house, you're primed to get to work.
    — Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • The second: There are no systematic checks for a history of fraud.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • There seemed to be consensus that a shift in the estate tax arena might be one of the more systematic ways to raise revenue.
    — Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • For all of Dalio’s talk about a grand, systematic structure of management, a person could be hired or fired based on the founder’s whim.
    — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Are the other components in the process systematic enough for a machine to replicate them in the near future?
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • The purges in the armed forces were systematic, rooting out whole units and conducting yearly roundups.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2021
  • There’s corruption; there’s a systematic failure on the part of the Turkish Government, and of the U.N.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 July 2024
  • Countries next needed to act on the data in a systematic way to quash locusts.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Aquinas, on the other hand, was too systematic, at least in his scholastic writings.
    — John Byron Kuhner, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • And in 2019, Cal Fire gained access to a much more systematic detection tool.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Two out of three had no systematic way to recruit qualified staff and vet new hires.
    — Kim Brimhall, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • There is no evidence of systematic voter fraud in even a single swing state, let alone in all of them.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Jan. 2022
  • There have been gamblers in my family, one of whom had a head for math and used to bet on pro football in a systematic and profitable way.
    — Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • But will that translate to systematic usage, and to what degree?
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Teams like the expansion Valkyries have proved a star isn’t always a necessity — gains can be made with savvy strategy, decent rotational players and a hefty amount of systematic discipline.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • This research was a large team collaboration on a systematic review, led by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from our universities.
    — Christina Scherrer, The Conversation, 25 June 2025

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