functioning

Example Sentences

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"I wasn't happy. I knew my body wasn't functioning properly and I wasn't prepared to just put up with it," she said.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

If federal habeas review is functioning properly, prisoners with innocence claims should prefer it over compassionate release; the latter reduces the sentence, but keeps the conviction intact.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

In recent years, however, scientists have also linked it to brain protection and neuronal differentiation, the process by which immature neural cells become functioning neurons.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

The often-byzantine process Delta uses to staff those flights hasn’t been functioning well.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Yet the nature of many of the chemicals used against insects, rodents, and weeds is such that they may strike directly at this system, disrupting its beautifully functioning mechanism.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson