functioning

Example Sentences

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"Right after the second prone shooting, my body somehow stopped functioning normally and I was really struggling to breathe and move, so I had to stop," he wrote.

From Barron's

While specialist science and engineering roles form the backbone, around 70% of the jobs are the operational roles required to keep the stations functioning.

From BBC

Khadar Hussein Abdi reached out specifically to Turkey, another country that objected to Israel's move, telling AFP that Turkish officials "must talk to us, not to Mogadishu" as Somalia had no functioning state.

From Barron's

The system generated functioning computer code in minutes -- something that would normally take experienced programmers several hours or even days.

From Science Daily

One of the greatest operas of our time, John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic,” contemplates the creation of nuclear weapons as the functioning of a latter-day Faust, Goethe’s most lasting creation.

From Los Angeles Times