systemic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to systems or a system.
  2. adjective Relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism: systemic symptoms; a systemic poison.
  3. adjective Relating to or affecting a particular body system, especially the nervous system: a systemic lesion.

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  • She'd suddenly been dropped onto a planet with a completely different language, and doctors who couched my brother's death sentence with passive and misleading terms ( late-term systemic, marginal outcome, radical treatment, negligible recovery rate), terms that forced her to ask questions she didn't even know the words for and certainly didn't want the answers to. —  Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
  • First, only Silicon Valley could be so self-centered to hear a quick comment about venture capital firm regulation and translate that into Silicon Valley being called a systemic risk that needs regulation. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • If Lehman defaulted and the sun still rose the following morning, the single greatest fear of the markets -- systemic meltdown following the collapse of a major intermediary -- would be shown to be overblown.
  • The real violence in Mindanao and elsewhere is the "objective, systemic, anonymous violence" imposed by imperialist Capital on the people. —  mongster's nest
  • The Court doesn't seem to care -- if the errors aren't systemic, then they're of little importance. —  Concurring Opinions
 

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/sɪsˈtɛmɪk/
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