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For example, vanillin can function as a dynamic crosslinker, helping connect different components within a material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The latest example: This weekend’s follies in the NFC East, where a pair of victories were lost in baffling last-second fiascos that showed the humble limits of human function.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

His government re-established its authority across the country and restored it to its proper function of defending life and property without destroying democracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The brand talks about service not merely as a function of getting food to customers, but as an expression of care.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

In Wacquant’s words: “Racial division was a consequence, not a precondition of slavery, but once it was instituted it became detached from its initial function and acquired a social potency all its own.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Executives also were “optimistic” regarding AI’s ability to automate manual tasks and act as a real-time tool for several sales, marketing and finance functions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Amino acids are best known as the building blocks of proteins, but some perform other important functions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

This blurring of what are diametrically opposite functions is epistemologically perilous and morally repugnant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Although these laboratory experiments did not establish an anti-aging effect, they supported the idea that Menin has important protective functions in brain cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Frank Millet, director of functions, meanwhile stepped up his own efforts to promote the fair and arranged an increasingly exotic series of events.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Now, researchers have uncovered evidence that the structures may have functioned as a sophisticated navigation system, allowing an ancient animal to interpret Earth's magnetic field much like a map.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

At first, the account functioned like a group chat for local surfers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

And while some safety systems were absent, he said the gas detectors apparently functioned as they should do, triggering an automatic shut down of the fuel supply.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The reassignment is part of broader organizational changes that have the effect of making DeepMind—which Google acquired in 2014 and has functioned as a semiautonomous operation—more tightly integrated with the rest of the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

I had a small cell near our large one that functioned as a study, with a chair, desk, and bookshelves, where I could read and write during the day.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Instead of functioning as stop signals, TAA and TAG appeared to encode entirely different amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

SB 942 declares that detainees at state, local and privately run facilities have the right to medical, dental and mental health care; physical exercise; clean drinking water and functioning toilets; and other rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“A sufficiently powerful system functioning within a self-reinforcing loop risks reducing the ability of society to exercise meaningful oversight and intervention,” Bailey wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

"Below a certain threshold, services do not simply reach fewer people; they can stop functioning altogether, leaving those most at risk without the protection they need."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The society of Gethen, in its daily functioning and in its continuity, is without sex.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin