functioning as
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Pointing out that the armed forces were sorting clothes, medicine and food, Rodríguez said "everything is functioning as well as possible during these terrible moments, these terrible hours, that our people are enduring".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
“It’s a lifeline to keep functioning as normally as possible,” he said, explaining that the business lost money last year due to tariffs and has been discounting some existing inventory to boost cash flow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Even the distributor behind this very sequel, 20th Century Studios, was bought, chopped up and consolidated, now functioning as one of Disney’s many appendages.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
Executives of the major private-credit firms are saying the structures of their funds are functioning as intended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
That is to say that they all but ceased their functioning as ears.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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