serve a purpose
idiom
: to have a particular use or function : to be useful or helpful in some way
Everything on the boat serves a purpose.
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Other dams that still serve a purpose, however, are being replaced by new dams, as is the case with the Lake Bronson Dam in northern Minnesota.
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Kristoffer Tigue, WIRED, 13 July 2024
With your teams, identify frustrating rules — or policies that people perceive to be rules — that no longer serve a purpose.
—Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
All of that suggests that law enforcement disruption campaigns serve a purpose.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
Though ships now can navigate via GPS, the flashing light and bellowing horn still serve a purpose, Foregger tells his guests.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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Kristoffer Tigue, WIRED, 13 July 2024
With your teams, identify frustrating rules — or policies that people perceive to be rules — that no longer serve a purpose.
—Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
All of that suggests that law enforcement disruption campaigns serve a purpose.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
Though ships now can navigate via GPS, the flashing light and bellowing horn still serve a purpose, Foregger tells his guests.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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“Serve a purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serve%20a%20purpose. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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