functioned

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 26, 2026

These crater lakes may have functioned as localized "oxygen oases" before oxygen became widespread across the planet.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

I barely understood it — to me, it functioned like a random madness machine.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Instead, Gallrein simply functioned as an anthropomorphized biography.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

The new science was thus dependent on a few key technologies which functioned, to use Elizabeth Eisenstein’s phrase, as ‘agents of change’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton