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A confusing patchwork of last-minute orders imposed since October—somehow both too restrictive to allow regular functioning of the economy and not restrictive enough to effectively limit the virus’s spread—have failed to improve the situation.

Such activities are essential to the functioning of a free democracy.

In normal times, I would maintain that this is the healthy functioning of the market’s “invisible hand.”

Data from the advisory group suggests that vaccinating essential workers maximizes the overall functioning of society and promotes access to the vaccine for communities of color, which have been most affected by the pandemic.

She described herself as “high functioning” and said she was always in special education classes in elementary and high school.

Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.

Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts.

It is entirely possible for some of these mechanisms to be functioning while others have ceased.

There are conditions where the heart and many other organs are functioning relatively well, but the brain is very ill.

Thailand has had a lousy track record with functioning democracy for many decades.

Once his one-track mind got to functioning on a certain objective it seldom digressed.

The lungs, functioning there in another atmosphere, are different from our own.

Thus the dreams show that unselective awakening of ideas which is to be expected from a general decrease of functioning.

She was wearing some kind of perfume, Burckhardt noted with what little of his mind was functioning at all.

His mental processes were gone beyond the point of disbelief and shock; they simply were not functioning.