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

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

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

Those silly questions I had refused to answer were some kind of test to see if my faculties were intact, and I had failed it spectacularly.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman