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grepping for something but excluding something else in the line

Ok heres the situation.

I'm grepping for all running processes with the name system. but there are also processes running with the name systema. How do I just search for processes running just under the "system" user

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How about:
ps -ef | grep '[s]ystem' | grep -v systema

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