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as in to attend
to be a servant for
he served his master faithfully for 20 years
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as in to treat
to behave toward in a stated way
my parents served me well in preparing me for life
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as in to benefit
to provide with something useful or desirable
an excellent college that served her with the skills necessary to make it in today's job market
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Recent Examples of serve
The public face of the company has been Yves Guillemot, who serves as Ubisoft’s CEO and chairman.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Increasingly, however, the medical record serves multiple audiences simultaneously.
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Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Residents serve one-year, two-year, or five-year terms.
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Ashley Portillo,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
Said another way, Pride Month's June 1 start came and went and the NFL's X account that serves over 36 million followers and its Instagram account that serves 32 million followers did not mention the event.
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Armando Salguero Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for serve
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Increasingly, however, the medical record serves multiple audiences simultaneously.
—
Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Residents serve one-year, two-year, or five-year terms.
—
Ashley Portillo,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
Said another way, Pride Month's June 1 start came and went and the NFL's X account that serves over 36 million followers and its Instagram account that serves 32 million followers did not mention the event.
—
Armando Salguero Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for serve
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The comparison group, who did not attend college, had earned $432,996.
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The women, who also wore Mexico jerseys, were planning to attend the watch party.
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This approach is likely to be useful, but for those who crave real understanding of how the genome, and ultimately life itself, works, a computational black box will never suffice.
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The regime understands that a purely symbolic victory would not suffice to win over regime opponents who have temporarily set aside their grievances for the sake of wartime unity, or those hardliners who have reluctantly halted calls for war on the promise of major concessions from Washington.
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Smoke, salt, pepper and bark do the work.
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Mark Thompson does the costume and scenic design, with lighting by Howard Harrison.
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She was treated at the scene before being taken to an area hospital.
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Federal Aviation Administration rules bar cities from treating airlines unequally, and the council's action put $90 million in federal grant funding in jeopardy, according to one council member.
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DeSantis panned that idea, noting that the federal government isn’t acting.
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The report’s key finding was that an odd, angry, 24-year-old assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had acted alone, for reasons nobody could quite figure out.
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Priya Bhardwaj does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Modesto will benefit from the same Delta breeze that Sacramento will, keeping temps from flirting with 100 degrees unlike Fresno.
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The show’s dramatic romance and journey of self-growth seems to fit in line with something Austen would’ve imagined for her characters.
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Scott Penn, senior landscape architect for the city of Fort Worth, said a standard community center is 25,000 square feet, which does not fit the five-acre park.
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Bosch, the German engineering firm, says its British subsidiary now handles 10,000 import transactions per year, a stunning increase from just 40 annually prior to Brexit.
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According to the developers, the AI agent will create itineraries, handle arrangements, and try to anticipate what guests need.
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“Serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serve. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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