functioned

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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

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

Operated by Gulftainer—which also runs a cargo terminal at Port Canaveral in Florida—Khor Fakkan had long functioned primarily as a transshipment hub.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond