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Endemically

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en·dem·ic  (n-dmk)
adj.
1. Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people: diseases endemic to the tropics. See Synonyms at native.
2. Ecology Native to or confined to a certain region.
n. Ecology
An endemic plant or animal.

[From Greek endmos, native, endemic : en-, in; see en-2 + dmos, people; see d- in Indo-European roots.]

en·demi·cal·ly adv.
en·demism n.


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For the past 30 years, Egypt has invested little in its education system and managed it poorly through an endemically corrupt and inefficient centralized system.
What has happened is that this sort of thinking has endemically affected the rest of society, and it has become a mindset and a mould that we all seem to fit in.
Gramscian understandings of the way capitalism works begin with the recognition that its basic class relationships are endemically contradictory, and that in consequence social order, economic cooperation and the sharing of common goals is something that has to be constructed.
 
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