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Though the creakily mechanical exposition runs ninety minutes, into the second episode, it fulfills the function of, say, nine opening minutes in a feature.

"Neither one would fulfill the function of a stand-alone folk art museum," she said.

It was, he said "a city fulfilling the functions of a heart located in the middle of the body".

It fulfills the same function of pain in the human body.

It became part of the three-piece suit by the turn of the century, fulfilling the function of pocket-watch holder.

He never sounds like a guitarist, even when he's fulfilling the function of one.

Russia will fulfill the function of protecting him from U.S. sanctions.

But then again, I'm just fulfilling the function of the hipster, pointing out patterns that already exist.

Such devices are so powerful that they fulfill the functions of scores of once-familiar products, which will gradually disappear.

And as a result, the play fulfills the function of the festival, speaking directly to a young audience unfamiliar and perhaps uncomfortable with the idiom of the theater.

Political parties have collapsed into a single Bipartisan Party, which also fulfills the religious functions of a unified church and state".