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also disfunction
as in disease
impaired or abnormal functioning (as of a body part)
She's suffered from minor brain dysfunction since the accident.
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Recent Examples of dysfunction
The opening segment in which a key Soviet figure gets assassinated is one the highlights in an uneven mix of dirty spy games tied to a shadowy American spy organization called Caddis and family dysfunction of two broods.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
How PsA Affects Body Image The physical symptoms of PsA are often linked with the development of psychosocial dysfunction, including a poor body image.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2025
Over the next 12 years, Parker carved out a dominant role in Los Angeles despite longstanding dysfunction within the Sparks, finally leading the franchise to a title in 2016.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
These changes may help explain how vascular dysfunction contributes to the cascade of neurodegeneration.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
How PsA Affects Body Image The physical symptoms of PsA are often linked with the development of psychosocial dysfunction, including a poor body image.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2025
Over the next 12 years, Parker carved out a dominant role in Los Angeles despite longstanding dysfunction within the Sparks, finally leading the franchise to a title in 2016.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
These changes may help explain how vascular dysfunction contributes to the cascade of neurodegeneration.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dysfunction
Noun
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This isn’t the first study to suggest the importance of breakfast for living a long life—research has shown that regularly eating a morning meal is linked with lower overall and heart-related mortality (and that bypassing it can up your heart-disease risk).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
4 Sep. 2025
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Yet America’s system is transactional, rewarding affluence while neglecting the very conditions that produce disease.—
Stan Chu Ilo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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These include celiac disease, pelvic floor dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, hormonal imbalances such as hypothyroidism, metabolic disorders like diabetes, neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease or even certain cancers.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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There is no credible scientific evidence that acetaminophen causes autism or that leucovorin (a derivative of folic acid) can prevent the disorder, as the HHS report purportedly will suggest, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Dysfunction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dysfunction. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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