The phrase "a functioning life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a life that is operational, effective, or capable of meeting basic needs and goals.
Example: "After years of struggle, she finally achieved a functioning life, balancing work, relationships, and personal well-being."
Alternatives: "a productive life" or "an active life".
He rails against the pro game, and against college football, a multibillion-dollar industry "where players spend their prime athletic years playing for free, hoping they don't get injured, so they can get their one deal where they play for five seasons, and hopefully not be so concussed by the time they're done they can live a functioning life".
The French investigators' report, which was obtained by Air Transport Intelligence, a news agency that covers the industry, also recommends that the international aviation group change the standards for black boxes so that their locator beacons have a wider range and a functioning life of three months rather than the current one month.
It simply takes the body much longer to metabolize than heroin so users can enjoy a functioning life between hits.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, anyone with a serious medical condition that "prohibits her from having a normal functioning life is considered to be disabled," according to the lawsuit.
Is it because both spouses lack the resources to implement the process of divorce, or have some of these couples developed certain strategies that help them understand each other and lead a relatively well functioning life together despite it all?
The bad: BLUR's attempt to simplify our social networking lives is more of a valiant effort at the moment than a fully functioning, life-altering organization tool.
A team of English architects and structural engineers have started a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to make a fully functioning, life-sized and inhabitable replica of The White City.
It impacts an employee's health, functioning, life satisfaction, and overall self-esteem.
The aim of this process is to keep such individuals in a state of refrigerated limbo so that it may become possible in the future to resuscitate them, cure them of the condition that killed them, and then restore them to functioning life in an era when medical science has triumphed over the activities of the Grim Reaper.
I'm not entirely sure how any sports journalist has a functioning family life, but they seem to manage it.
We won't get through the next five years as a sane nation without a functioning creative life, and public investment in artists and arts organisations is essential to that.
