function

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Even when I’m not working and I go to a festival as a civilian, I’m all about function over fashion and comfortable shoes and socks to walk thousands of steps each day.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The citizenship clause would not accomplish its most basic function of overruling Dred Scott.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

These are remarkable arguments to make in the middle of a war that depends on those very alliances to function.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

The reason is that the sport’s fancy new automated ball-strike system couldn’t function without it—which means that the days of players embellishing their heights for posterity are officially over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

But Dr. Roland had now begun an informative lecture concerning the care and function of the manifold gasket.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt