functioned
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It functioned as a musical chairs of sorts, in which the contestants switched partners until the music was paused, and a couple was announced.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
At first, the account functioned like a group chat for local surfers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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
It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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