functioned

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The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

What they saw functioned as a needed corrective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

In this framework, Earth functioned as a natural "all-in-one" chemistry laboratory operating over immense periods of time.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

For generations, the cream-coloured clubhouse located on Safdarjung Road has functioned as a discreet world of retired generals, senior bureaucrats and old business families conducting negotiations over whisky sodas and kebabs.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

I was thirty- six then and had been with Dennis nearly sixteen years and I’d never functioned without him.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride