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Tehran residents, known as Tehranis, said the city was functioning but thinned out after a mass exodus of people who had the means to leave and secure a place elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Portuguese officials investigating Wednesday's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon say a cable along the railway's route snapped, but the rest of the mechanism was functioning properly.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

The boat’s automatic identification system, according to the Coast Guard, was functioning and showed no signs that anything was wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025

The AP could not independently verify that either line was functioning.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2023

The compass was still gyrating loosely, but the altimeter was functioning accurately, as far as he could judge, and showed them to be floating about a thousand feet above the seashore and parallel with it.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman