functional
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There was even a fully functional outdoor tub.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
While those people must be good at their roles, he believes that collaborative teams will outperform individuals who have a high level of functional brilliance, but don’t work well together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The cuts amount to 5% of its global workforce with most of them among operational and functional roles.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
"The next step is to characterize abnormal functional and structural brain states along these pathways to build more detailed models for setting patient-specific stimulation parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and pulse width, for precision medicine."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
They can be highly intelligent and functional, but they lack judgment.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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