functioning as

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The other bonus tracks are more reflective, essentially functioning as a post-mortem on her love life.

From BBC • May 2, 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

For now, executives of the major private-credit firms are saying the structures of their funds—which require shareholders to cash out slowly over time—are functioning as intended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Earlier research proposed that this land bridge stopped functioning as a migration route around 56 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

There seemed to be no way in which atoms and molecules could somehow spontaneously fall together to create organisms of such awesome complexity and subtle functioning as grace every region of the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan