dysfunctional
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Two decades earlier, Lindy, for her part, made a smash, and a packet, with “My Rainbow Starts With Black,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, seemingly based on her own dysfunctional family, and its Oscar-winning film adaptation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
It shattered the Windsor mantra of “never complain, never explain,” stripping back the mystique of monarchy, revealing a somewhat dysfunctional family trapped inside an institution it struggles to manage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Over time they can enter a dysfunctional condition called T cell exhaustion, where their ability to eliminate threats declines.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026
The committee's chairman, Alistair Carmichael, said Defra's evidence "paints a picture of a dysfunctional system", with "unchecked meat and plant products being let in through the front door."
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
The painting of the dysfunctional family in front of me begins to move—pointing and laughing at me.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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