function
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The expansion proposal promises to create "a world-class studio blending function and desirability"
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The researchers also reported that the new system could perform the same memory function as comparable technologies while consuming only one-tenth as much power.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Galperin said she has seen how creators of stalkerware have resisted changing their product function in favor of rewriting ad copy to say their software is meant for parents, employees or “building trust in relationships.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
In January 2025, a settlement was announced with the National Park Service laying out how the park would function going forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
During some of the darkest times, when William could barely function, she quietly “took him to work every morning and put his pen in his hand to get him started.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Google has indeed been successful in supercharging search functions with AI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Bouaddi functions as a deep-lying conductor - much in the same vein as Rodri - and would complement summer signing Elliot Anderson, who is more of a box-to-box midfielder.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Both the Los Angeles County Development Authority and the City of Los Angeles have notified the court of their ability to take on those functions, either individually or jointly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
AT&T has over a thousand internal uses for AI, from supporting back-office functions like legal and finance to assisting field technicians and running its core network operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Although companies describe them as decision-support tools, she said they often functioned as "automated decision-making systems".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Married to the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee until his death in 2014, Quinn has functioned, at least since the 1980s, as the self-appointed spokeswoman of the nation’s permanent political establishment.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Our vertebral column has evolved little from our four-legged, quadrupedal tree-dwelling ancestors, where it functioned primarily as a flexible beam for smooth movement from branch to branch, while also protecting the spinal cord.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
In another lawsuit, he claimed an arcade rigged its claw machines against players, alleging it functioned as “a casino for children.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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He taped the unfeeling fingers to the functioning ones so that he could grip a baseball, then, resembling “a little boy throwing against the steps of his back porch,” threw against a wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
A squark can signal when the system is switched on, is functioning properly, but it can also carry location information.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The space junk includes defunct man-made objects like rocket bodies, dead satellites and fragments from launches, explosions and collisions that threaten to re-enter Earth's atmosphere or crash into functioning satellites.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
To investigate how defects in this gene might cause disc disease, researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Bristol studied zebrafish bred without a functioning copy of it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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