function

He adds: "As humans we physically can't function without that necessity."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Expertly designed retaining walls expand the usable hillside pad, showcasing an understanding of form and function that mirrors the property’s disciplined calm.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

For others, they could temporarily supplement liver function while the patient waits for a donor organ.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

But if a mutation disrupts the function of an enzyme, then the normal gene must specify the information to make the normal enzyme.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

McDonald’s said that later this year it will begin retraining its more than two million global restaurant workers, company employees and suppliers, targeting higher standards for hospitality and other functions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

A long obscure board that oversees L.A.’s federal homelessness funds has published a request for qualifications seeking new applicants for the four federally-mandated functions that make up LAHSA’s core work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Open match that finished at 3:33 a.m.: the courtside sponsorship from Oura, the smart ring whose key functions include sleep tracking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Even today, aside from making a mortgage payment — which functions as a sort of forced-savings mechanism — households typically don’t save much at all, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Today, in the symbiotic associations that dominate so much of the life of the sea, there is rarely a question of who is who, even when the combination functions like a single animal.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

And while some safety systems were absent, he said the gas detectors apparently functioned as they should do, triggering an automatic shut down of the fuel supply.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

In the years following its acquisition by Google, the London-based DeepMind primarily functioned as an independent research entity instead of a integrated product unit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

For much of the past century, British politics functioned largely as a two-party system.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

Married to the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee until his death in 2014, Quinn has functioned, at least since the 1980s, as the self-appointed spokeswoman of the nation’s permanent political establishment.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

We had been kept in detention and had functioned without our lawyers for more than five months.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Last week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to get the Stormont government functioning properly with a budget.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

If the body’s system isn’t functioning properly, then there is a risk of dehydration, heart strain and overheating, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In a country better known for industrial farming, highly processed food and suspiciously long-lasting bread, Chuck Childers rises before dawn and trudges off to operate one of America's oldest functioning gristmills.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

He sees it as a much better alternative than regular beer, and said that routine blood work shows his liver functioning normally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“The research shows you can take older people who aren’t functioning well and make them cognitively younger through this training,” Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told me.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel