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Legal experts say the latest ruling is different, functionally outlawing cash bail in most cases, and strictly capping the amount in others.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

With the semi-finals starting in Vienna this Tuesday, here's a guide to all 35 songs, sorted into poorly defined musical categories - because no functionally accurate system could define this madness.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Roberts similarly warned his colleagues that “the comments of the E.P.A. administrator herself indicate that without immediate action from this court, this rule will become functionally irreversible.”

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

They want to graduate functionally literate young people, not hand kids a diploma that says they showed up for class for 12 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas