functioned

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He said these forests were dominated by oak, hazel, elm, birch and pine but would have functioned as what we now recognise as a temperate rainforest in the wetter west.

From BBC • May 25, 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

In those cases, one side functioned mainly as a striking platform while the opposite side was prepared to produce sharp flakes.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

On these occasions, the regent was surrounded by his amapbakathi, a group of councilors of high rank who functioned as the regent’s parliament and judiciary.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela