functioned

Example Sentences

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The Lakers functioned as a family business for more than 45 years under the ownership of the late Jerry Buss and his children.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Rather than pursuing revolution, they largely functioned as parliamentary parties centred on welfare, labour rights and redistribution.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Instead, Gallrein simply functioned as an anthropomorphized biography.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

For St. Louis, the exposition functioned as an exercise in city-building and the carving out of civic spaces, including architect Cass Gilbert’s Palace of Fine Arts, which was renamed the St. Louis Art Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

The Pickett estate wasn’t in a nice neighborhood, exactly, but it was so gigantic that it functioned as a neighborhood unto itself.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green