functioning
Example Sentences
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“The terrorist threat was serious, and terrible for those who are affected, but it was like a nuisance in an otherwise functioning system,” he said.
It was a fully functioning ecosystem where contestants slept, ate, played, read and whiled away the hours, built in a stretch of empty field off a Greenville highway.
"It's been great, it helps my brain, it really does, it keeps me functioning - so it's good."
From BBC
Kosovo has missed out on hundreds of millions of euros' worth of European Union funds because of the lack of a functioning government.
From BBC
If those habitats disappear or stop functioning properly, connectivity between whale fall sites breaks down.
From Science Daily
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