functioned

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The Lakers functioned as a family business for more than 45 years under the ownership of the late Jerry Buss and his children.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

He said these forests were dominated by oak, hazel, elm, birch and pine but would have functioned as what we now recognise as a temperate rainforest in the wetter west.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

These crater lakes may have functioned as localized "oxygen oases" before oxygen became widespread across the planet.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Instead, Gallrein simply functioned as an anthropomorphized biography.

From Slate • May 19, 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