entire function
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Remember that the nervous system’s entire function is to warn us of danger.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024
That amount can not only harm plants, but it can also upend “the entire function of the ecosystem,” says study author Pieter De Frenne, an ecologist at Ghent University in Belgium.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2023
When someone’s entire function is ceremonial, it can take on big significance if they change up even a small part of that ceremony.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2019
As before said, the entire function of this most effective machine tool is self-acting.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel
Three-quarters at least of the entire function will be occupied by that.
From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh
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