functioned

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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

As Marvin-Alonzo Greer, a former supervisor of the site’s African American History Initiative, said, “If you wanted to understand who actually lived there, how the town functioned, you took a carriage ride.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander