faculties

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When I released the clutch and took off, my spirit filled with joy, and any anxieties about my age or declining faculties disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

No adult treats any other adult that way unless they’ve lost their mental faculties or never had them.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025

He said the cuts would be felt across all its four faculties, including sciences and health as well as arts and humanities.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

Its authors are drawn from the faculties of the state universities of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Florida and Ohio, as well as from Johns Hopkins, Duke and the Cleveland Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2024

Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë