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The phrase "system shut down" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to the action of turning off a computer or other electronic device. Example: The system shut down unexpectedly, causing us to lose all of our unsaved work.
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Her endocrine system shut down.
On Saturday, the city's subway system shut down.
My digestive system shut down and I couldn't eat or drink anything.
For several weeks, the banking system shut down and the peso stopped trading on currency markets.
And by the end, with his digestive system shut down, his figure skeletal, he was ready to die.
Whatever the glitch meant, technicians were unable to head off the problem, and the system shut down over eight states.
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But what may shift public thinking, he said, is repeated storms and constant subway system shut downs.
The system shuts down the engine when the brake pedal is fully depressed.
The system shuts down below 2 m.p.h., so it isn't set off simply by crawling through traffic or a drive-through lane.
The system shuts down within a thousandth of a second if anything obstructs the beam.
In 2006, the majority Labor government made sweeping changes to the education system, shutting down 23 schools across the territory.
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