functions

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Climate functions and first-order cabin controls, like the powered windows and outside mirrors, get their own hard switches.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

This has all the technical detail required to formalise the abolition of NHS England and the move of its functions to the Department of Health and Social Care.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Once absorbed, the vitamin is converted into molecules that help protect cells from oxidative damage and support other important biological functions.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

"However, if you want to have a monarchy that carries out public functions, then the state should pay for that, fundamentally," he says.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Indeed, armed with microscopes, cell biologists had become accustomed to a cellular world in which visible structures performed identifiable functions within cells.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee