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as in works (for)
to be a servant for
he served his master faithfully for 20 years
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as in treats
to behave toward in a stated way
my parents served me well in preparing me for life
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as in benefits
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 serves
The First Friday House Band sets the tone while Café Modern serves cocktails, wine, and a special dining menu.
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Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Shawn Boskie of Canyon Productions serves as executive producer.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
The monologue serves as a perfect summation of New Blood and Resurrection.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
If nothing else, Hanks’ doc serves as a reminder of how brilliant that show was, and how mind-bogglingly brilliant Candy was on it.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Evatt is grants coordinator for North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education, and serves as the District 5 Justice of the Peace for Boone County.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025
Fedock currently serves as SVP of Financial Planning and Analysis at the company and will succeed Ron Bruehlman, who is retiring.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Miller serves as the program’s showrunner.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Data center revenue, which serves as a proxy for the company’s AI prospects, came up short of estimates.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Shawn Boskie of Canyon Productions serves as executive producer.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
The monologue serves as a perfect summation of New Blood and Resurrection.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
If nothing else, Hanks’ doc serves as a reminder of how brilliant that show was, and how mind-bogglingly brilliant Candy was on it.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Evatt is grants coordinator for North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education, and serves as the District 5 Justice of the Peace for Boone County.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025
Fedock currently serves as SVP of Financial Planning and Analysis at the company and will succeed Ron Bruehlman, who is retiring.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Miller serves as the program’s showrunner.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Data center revenue, which serves as a proxy for the company’s AI prospects, came up short of estimates.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for serves
Verb
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Creating a Partiful event or even texting the group suffices.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
29 Aug. 2025
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The complete sentence, housed in a single Arabic word, أحبّك, suffices when the world closes in and there is no room for longer declarations, for the leisure of language and its constructions.—
Nima Hasan
August 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Egyptian government considers the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, but the United States does not.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Sep. 2025
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The online chatter was loud enough that Nongshim decided to make those on-screen treats a reality.—
Lanee Lee,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The detention touches on ongoing concerns about how the federal government treats green card holders, also known as lawful permanent residents, with decades‑old convictions.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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To say that Servillo acts with a poker face would be to vastly understate the unsmiling minimalism of his performance.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
27 Aug. 2025
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Hackberry acts as a larval food source for butterflies, such as the question mark and the emperor.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
27 Aug. 2025
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SpaceX additionally benefits from billions of dollars in contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense by providing launch services for classified satellites and other payloads.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Who benefits, and at what cost?—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The official attends committee meetings and ensures members are complying with federal law and the correct protocols.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Marisa Jackson’s 10-year-old son, Maxwell, is in the fifth grade and attends public school.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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Aurora’s powerful contribution Aurora handles the computational side of this pairing, with more than 60,000 GPUs and the ability to perform over one quintillion calculations per second.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Aliyah Boston #7 of the Indiana Fever handles the ball against the Washington Mystics at Capital One Arena on June 07, 2024 in Washington, DC.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Aside from being a militant group, Hezbollah also functions as a political party that has lawmakers in the legislature and a social services arm that serves many of its constituents, primarily in the south of the country.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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Social Bonding and the Meaning of Work Labor also functions as a social glue.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Serves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serves. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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