faculties
Example Sentences
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In the closing days of the war, close allies questioned his mental faculties.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
All that and a man whose cognitive faculties were far from normal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 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
It's long dried now, but the smeary lines running side to side suggest someone -who perhaps was not fully in control of his mental faculties -tried to wipe it away.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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