functional
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Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
This, of course, has its own nuances — a case-by-case basis depending on the severity of the artist’s wrongdoings — but being a functional adult means learning to measure your own integrity.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Fifty-eight percent of functional leaders who do track performance reported a positive return, but the median return rate was 10%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Our experiments helped us reveal several factors that may have prevented scientists from designing a functional quantum bath using a single source of correlated photons for distributed entanglement," says Fink.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
She could feel the sleeplessness starting to unravel her brain like a kitten with a blanket, pulling at important threads until it wasn’t even functional anymore.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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