well-functioning
- a word derived from function.
Example Sentences
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"We need to develop our own capacities. We cannot allow someone trying to influence our own decisions, our own values, our own well-functioning economy and services," EU competition tsar Teresa Ribera said this month.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
“In well-functioning markets, buyer satisfaction and seller profits move together,” said Claes Fornell, ACSI’s founder.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
Those who emigrated, he said, can contribute insights they gained from living in well-functioning democracies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Detractors painted the election as a referendum on Breed’s efforts to address sprawling homeless encampments, rampant property crime and a flagging post-pandemic economy that cut at voters’ sense of a safe, well-functioning city.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
Like viruses, they simply take over the molecular machinery of a much larger, well-functioning cell and change it from a factory for making more cells into a factory for making more viroids.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
