functioned
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Others have argued that the 364-day system was never intended for everyday use and functioned only as an idealized religious framework.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
At first, the account functioned like a group chat for local surfers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
And while some safety systems were absent, he said the gas detectors apparently functioned as they should do, triggering an automatic shut down of the fuel supply.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The reassignment is part of broader organizational changes that have the effect of making DeepMind—which Google acquired in 2014 and has functioned as a semiautonomous operation—more tightly integrated with the rest of the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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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