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have been functioning
  • present perfect progressive of function.

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Half of the station directors surveyed reported that in the four years since the lockdown began, their sites have been functioning with less -- or much less -- funding than they had in 2019.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

Regarding financial markets, Powell said that so far they have been "functioning well. There is a great deal of liquidity out there," and existing Fed programs were helping.

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2022

“Really, the fact they have been functioning so far is a miracle,” said Mordechai Kremnitzer, senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021

“I do have some questions on how you vet people, especially those coming from countries that basically haven’t had governments that have been functioning for a very long period of time,” Baker said Monday.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2015

We wanted a character who really belonged to the ’20s, who wouldn’t have been functioning in the same way 10 years earlier.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014