function

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Anthropic's stock market plans, coming alongside those of Elon Musk's SpaceX, will likely function as a test of whether investor appetite matches the soaring valuations of AI firms.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

"People don't function very efficiently if they're constantly worrying, 'Is my job going to exist next week?'"

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Yet the White House memo didn’t include crucial information typically yielded from such tests that would provide evidence for Barbabella’s finding that Trump’s cardiac function is normal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

"Most life on Earth is microbial, driving nutrient cycles and ecosystem function while revealing new dimensions of biological diversity through symbiosis," said Grosell.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

If a scientist had been asked what a gene was made of, how it accomplished its function, or where it resided within the cell, there would be few satisfactory answers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee