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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a failed system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is not functioning as intended or has not achieved its goals.
Example: "The recent audit revealed that the organization was operating under a failed system that hindered productivity and efficiency."
Alternatives: "an ineffective system" or "a broken system".
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And so a failed system endured.
He called Communism a failed system.
As Mr. Obama has driven deportations to record levels, he has gotten no closer to fixing a failed system.
Failures at Chernobyl and Fukushima underscore the rare but catastrophic ripple-effect of a failed system within a system of systems conceptual model.
PARIS — There was nothing through most of that gray, chilly Thursday to suggest that it would come to symbolize one of the great transitions of the 20th century, the triumphant end of a failed system.
The company says the pebble-bed reactor will be safer, too, though environmentalists in the United States and in other countries have sharply disputed this, calling the pebble-bed reactor a failed system vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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Coal-mined communities don't need more flawed social programs that feed a failed system--they need to be on the front line of regeneration and revival, a showcase for new economies in renewable energy, energy efficiency and tech industries, local food and agriculture, underwritten by decades of sacrifice.
Fashion is an old, tired, failed system.
I can only assume you are a product of that failed system.
I argue that a replacement for the current, failed system should include sensible testing.
How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck (Verso, £16.99).
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