as in steward
a person hired to perform household or personal services
the wealthy family had servants to clean and cook for them
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Recent Examples of servant
Individuals who begin to see themselves as fathers, mothers, believers, mentors, or servants often become less attached to the identities that contributed to their criminal behavior in the first place.
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Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Commissioner Tisch has already shown a real commitment to cracking down on corruption and ensuring that the public servants in the NYPD are held to the highest standards.
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Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Undisguised at last, and with help from Athena, Telemachus, and a few loyal servants, Odysseus kills them all, a hundred and eight men.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Robin is all but accused of being a runaway servant; Franklin had indeed broken his indenture to his older brother.
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John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Commissioner Tisch has already shown a real commitment to cracking down on corruption and ensuring that the public servants in the NYPD are held to the highest standards.
—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Undisguised at last, and with help from Athena, Telemachus, and a few loyal servants, Odysseus kills them all, a hundred and eight men.
—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Robin is all but accused of being a runaway servant; Franklin had indeed broken his indenture to his older brother.
—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for servant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servant
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While founder control is cited for long-term vision, the piece suggests alternative models like steward-ownership could foster accountability without sacrificing strategic focus, urging regulators to adapt to this new era of concentrated, potentially ungovernable corporate power.
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He was called to the stewards and slapped with a one-race ban that rules him out of Sunday's Grand Prix.
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Palace maids stand around a plump woman, struggling to fasten a black belt sash around her waist.
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The series follows a woman named Emma over the course of more than six decades of her life, from the 1900s through the 1970s, working her way from impoverished maid to the world’s richest woman.
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Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020.
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Avila alleged in her lawsuit that she and sister Maria Avila were hired in November 2020 as housekeepers at Brown’s home in Tarzana.
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Available at Printemps in New York and Paris, the capsule includes palm-print luggage, velvet slippers embroidered with the collection’s cheeky slogan and coffee cups inspired by the legendary Raffles butler service.
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We are waited on by drivers, butlers, and fixers, as well as a life philosophy coach, a psychologist and several doctors.
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After Wally springs her from the Shaw's clutches, the group manages to lure the couple and some of their lackeys into the makeshift particle accelerator trap that former engineer Sam built out of old cathode-ray tube TVs.
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That means, of course, she’s now been phased out of her role as a factory lackey in dystopian near-future Brazil due to her age.
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“Servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servant. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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