functioning
Example Sentences
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Balance-sheet reduction, or quantitative tightening, by contrast, has a more marginal and less predictable impact when markets are functioning normally.
From MarketWatch
They had been headed for the emergency room at Beaverville Hospital but maybe the hospital wasn’t functioning.
From Literature
The 41-year-old ski star with a surgically repaired right knee and without a functioning ACL in her left will begin the race as a legitimate contender to win a medal.
"What she is doing now would not be nearly as surprising in an elite athlete whose knee was already functioning like the ACL was torn at baseline."
From BBC
“The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it,” columnist Peggy Noonan lamented in the Wall Street Journal.
From Salon
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