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The Electronic Frontier Foundation insists that cops, not ISPs, should do something about the murderous gang of stalkers and serial harassers known as Kiwi Farms, but the cops have refused to do so for years, so they are functionally asking that nothing be done.
Source: tatoeba (12025279)
The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include advantageously, appliedly, behaviorally, by behavior, by function.
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