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Examples of functioned

functioned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The internet has thus functioned for the burgeoning movement as an anchor and definer of identity.
These were countries that functioned as plantation economies within the international division of labour, supplying tropical agricultural products to industrialised metropolitan countries.
The problem with the new technology of electric meters was the incomprehensibility of the mechanism by which it functioned.
In the bearing rein debate, the emphasis on utility, precision, rationality, and the verity of scientific understanding functioned rhetorically as a distancing device.
In addition, these areas also functioned as fast neutron breeder reactors, producing additional fissile material in the form of plutonium and other trans-uranic elements.
There is no question that they functioned as financial clearing houses, but these were indirect functions of their dominant position in the international monetary system.
The political platform thus functioned as a two-way interface, through which politicians negotiated their position with their constituents.
The nation's tourist structures, they wrote, had functioned better in the past than in more recent times.
That is to say, local practices always existed and functioned outside the authority of officials.
Neither functioned for their original purposes, but both are expressions of the identity and values of their builders.
Raw materials and (semi-)elaborated goods functioned as exchange goods not only among elites, but also among lower strata of the populations.
These probably functioned to regulate the rate and timing of seasonal inundation and subsequent drainage of the lagoon and adjoining fields.
During the early seventeenth century the term functioned essentially as an adjective - as in recitativo arioso - rather than a noun.
But it does seem that as long as violence did not come into play, late imperial land markets functioned reasonably well.
The linked loci were often separated by areas of lower-density population, yet they appear to have functioned as one political and economic unit.
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