How to Use ecosystem in a Sentence

ecosystem

noun
  • That has put them, and not the bricks, at the center of the play ecosystem.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • Now is your chance to bid for a coral atoll ecosystem in one of the most pristine parts of the world.
    Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And there’s nothing like that in any part of our ecosystem.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In other words: Cheese isn’t just a snack, it’s an ecosystem.
    Ute Eberle, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In part, that’s because Mastodon is already big enough to have some sway in the ecosystem.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And as much as our ecosystems will feel the change in pollen, we — people with noses that run and eyes that itch — feel it too.
    Michaela Mulligan, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • The news media ecosystem at the time supported more than one of those jobs in town.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
  • At the heart of the debate about deep-sea mining is whether this can be done in a way that doesn’t harm ocean ecosystems and species.
    Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Their goal, in part, is to preserve the arctic ecosystems the giants once roamed.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • To the researchers, this change signals a less resilient ecosystem.
    Sarah Sloat, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Thanks to Leesfield, the cave ecosystem has been nominated as a Hope Spot.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Very little was known about the ecosystems in the GMR’s deeper reaches, so one of the team’s main goals was to chart their layout.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Family caregivers have long been a part of the care ecosystem.
    Jessica Kim, Fortune, 21 May 2024
  • The destruction ripples out to the rest of the ecosystem, the AP found, as the fresh water aquifer connects to the Caribbean Sea.
    Teresa De Miguel, Megan Janetsky, and Rodrigo Abd, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2024
  • This network, or ecosystem, does not need to be all women.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Each species that is lost triggers the loss of other species within its ecosystem.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Not only is this bad for the ecosystem, but for local fishers too.
    John Lewis, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Cuban has expressed interest in the role Bluesky might play in the social media ecosystem in the past.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Overall, the Eufy is a great high-end option that plays nice with Alexa and Google ecosystems and works with your smart hub of choice.
    Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That’s a new thing, but there is more of a dynamic and a feedback loop among the leader and the right-wing media ecosystem.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.
    Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
  • More than half of all that pledged land is in non-forest ecosystems, according to the study authors.
    Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This has damaged ecosystems for plants, wildlife and people.
    Kate Linderman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • There are elements of the ecosystem that work against authors.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem.
    oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Researchers with the project sail around all five oceans and two seas (the Red and the Mediterranean), sampling plankton to try to understand the ocean ecosystem.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Nonetheless, the amount of money flowing through the ecosystem has begun to siphon off.
    Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Yet still, the work has big implications for the ecosystem’s future.
    Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This will surely not have mattered to anyone who tuned in to watch or, indeed, anyone sent home with an award, or to the wider ecosystem that profits materially from its mere existence.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Equinor The use of offshore wind energy will supplement the existing grid while also offsetting CO2 emissions ... but at the cost of affecting the marine ecosystem.
    New Atlas, 7 Jan. 2025

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