functional
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The home’s interiors were, according to information shared with Realtor.com, designed entirely by Yolanda and elegantly blend “historic character with bright, functional, and modern finishes.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
Lawmakers returned to Washington after a two-week recess to face a backlog of issues that would stress even a functional majority, which both the House and Senate lack.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
The Ellers weren’t convinced their children needed treatment at all, and were skeptical about cochlear implants, which drill out functional tissue to install electrodes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The paper, titled "Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling identifies cell types and functional variants contributing to major depression" by Anjali Chawla and Gustavo Turecki et al., was published in Nature Genetics.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
"It should be functional yet attractive, with lots of copper pots hanging from the ceiling."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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