functioned
Example Sentences
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What once functioned as supplemental classroom software has effectively become critical educational infrastructure.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
There, the MTS role functioned more like a scientific fellowship than a corporate position.
From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026
Since Coachella’s tandem cultural ascent with social media and the influencer in the 2010s, Weekend 1 has increasingly functioned less as a traditional festival and more as a kind of content engine.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
None of these tasks requires zero; civilizations functioned perfectly well for millennia before its discovery.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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