faculties

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Some 160 works show how he used his creative faculties as a survival device and drew on his Japanese education throughout his life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

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

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025

Students at Sapienza University where she works are staging sit-ins at several faculties.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

She now wants to do Pilates after work, and the long hours she spends working and learning legalese have kept her mental faculties in check.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Yes, I was moved—I, Van Helsing, with all my purpose and with my motive for hate—I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyse my faculties and to clog my very soul.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker