How to Use disfunction in a Sentence
disfunction
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Most fans and media members don’t want losing and disfunction.
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Terry Pluto,
cleveland,
29 Oct. 2022
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Sometimes, owners simply associate these symptoms of cognitive disfunction with old age.
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Sean Mowbray,
Discover Magazine,
3 Feb. 2023
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Viewers can spend one final episode luxuriating in the show’s uneasy mix of sun, disfunction, luxury and loathing amidst a setting of tropical splendor.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2021
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How are businesses and residents supposed to plan their own budgets when the disfunction of the Assessor’s office causes tax bills to be repeatedly delayed?
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2022
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For example, people living near e-waste facilities suffer from thyroid disfunction, cancer and miscarriage.
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Jason P. Dinh,
Discover Magazine,
28 July 2022
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Experts say such impunity is largely a product of the broader disfunction of Mexico’s justice system, in which the vast majority of crimes go unpunished.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Dec. 2021
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The combination of disfunction, violence, poverty, starvation, disease, corruption and finger-pointing have driven Haiti to the brink of absurdity.
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Mitch Albom,
Detroit Free Press,
23 Oct. 2022
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From bureaucratic disfunction, to essential safeguards against counterfeiting, to the simultaneous need to make other changes, such as adding tactile features so blind people can identify bills, the list of explanations offered is long and complex.
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Kristen Bellstrom,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2022
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At its inception in 2017, under the name Roman, the company billed itself as a men's health care company providing discreet treatments for conditions including erectile disfunction and hair loss.
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Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
3 Jan. 2022
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Acute symptoms of concussions include headaches and nausea, with long-term symptoms associated with concussions and head trauma consisting of memory loss, motor disfunction or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
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Margaret Osborne,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2022
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