dysfunctional

Example Sentences

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The company added that the California regulator should take responsibility for its part in making the state’s insurance market “the most dysfunctional in the country.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

King Charles III’s address to a joint meeting of Congress was the closest thing in a long time to a kumbaya moment on an ever more dysfunctional Capitol Hill.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

The new series examines the dysfunctional and volatile relationship between two men growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

One reason for the confusion is that healthy macrophages already show some of the same molecular features seen in senescent cells, making it difficult to distinguish between normal and dysfunctional states.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich