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[fuhngk-shuhn] / ˈfʌŋk ʃən /




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Just so you know how I function, I have backup plans for everything.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

His books on New York City planner Robert Moses and President Lyndon B. Johnson function as both biography and challenge, their hefty page counts daring readers to dive in.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

The relationship between axon structure and function also became the focus of a National Institute of Mental Health Multiple Principal Investigator grant awarded to Watanabe and Rangamani and highlighted in 2024.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

Managers who once oversaw seven people now function as player-coaches to groups of 15.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Like the simplest of human tools—hammer, scythe, bellows, ladder, scissors—the function of the molecule can be entirely comprehended from its structure.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The researchers focused on the hypothalamus, a small brain region that helps coordinate metabolism and other essential functions.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

That finding is important because mitochondria perform essential functions in nearly every cell, leading some scientists to question whether they can be safely targeted.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

Ejectees often wear their ties at airshows and other military functions, like a way cooler version of a fraternity sweater.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

But the prime minster said it was "unacceptable for there to be a legislative bar against people of any faith performing all the functions of my office".

From BBC Sep. 15, 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

At first, the account functioned like a group chat for local surfers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

The reassignment is part of broader organizational changes that have the effect of making DeepMind—which Google acquired in 2014 and has functioned as a semiautonomous operation—more tightly integrated with the rest of the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Credit markets have functioned smoothly, heavy supply has been absorbed and the main AI issuers still are “elite corporations with incredible balance sheets.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Although companies describe them as decision-support tools, she said they often functioned as "automated decision-making systems".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

I was thirty- six then and had been with Dennis nearly sixteen years and I’d never functioned without him.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Bessent this week kicked off a series of bigger buybacks of long-dated Treasurys with the aim to keep the world’s biggest debt market functioning smoothly and stabilizing long-end rates.

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

Defence barrister Andrew Ford KC suggested Irwin was accustomed to complying with his mother's wishes over many years, and was a man of lower than average intellectual functioning.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

It is embedded in the contingency plans we hope will never be needed and in the resilience of the institutions—and people—who keep the country functioning every day.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

We planned to assess both generations across domains of emotional, social, and everyday functioning.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

To see my solution working, functioning, on the screen.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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