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as in privilege
an act of kind assistance
performed many services for the charitable organization
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2
as in use
the capacity for being useful for some purpose
that broom is worn out beyond all service
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as in troops
the combined army, air force, and navy of a nation
at the time the country had about a million men and women in the service
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as in agency
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization
the OSS, the nation's wartime intelligence service
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as in military
of or relating to the armed services
spent his time in the army as a correspondent for service newspapers
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as in to condition
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Recent Examples of service
Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 29 May 2026
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, which serves around 1 million members across the metro and northeast Missouri, then claimed the hospital had opted out of service, not the other way around.
—Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Esteworld positions itself within this ecosystem as a multi-service provider spanning plastic surgery, medical aesthetics, dental treatments, and hair restoration.
—Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
David McQuead, the fire chief of the Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District, which would service the development, told a community meeting last year the project could not be passed today under current standards.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
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Noun
Helene Raynaud, senior vice president of business initiatives at Money Management International, a financial services company, previously told CNBC Select that HEAs are a risky product.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 29 May 2026
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, which serves around 1 million members across the metro and northeast Missouri, then claimed the hospital had opted out of service, not the other way around.
—Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
Adjective
Default logging misses lateral movement, API activity and cross-service calls.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Esteworld positions itself within this ecosystem as a multi-service provider spanning plastic surgery, medical aesthetics, dental treatments, and hair restoration.
—Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
The sole mission of the new company will be to service its debt.
—Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
David McQuead, the fire chief of the Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District, which would service the development, told a community meeting last year the project could not be passed today under current standards.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for service
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Built around recognition that is truly personalized and with benefits that are confirmed from the moment of booking, Diamond Reserve delivers a more elevated set of privileges for Hilton’s most frequent guests.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
4 June 2026
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By correlating vulnerabilities into potential attack paths, teams can prioritize issues that could realistically lead to privilege escalation, lateral movement, or data access—rather than treating all findings equally.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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Qualls takes lead Qualls took the lead after Lindell dropped out, but Demuth, urging the use of paper ballots over the clickers, tried to appeal to Lindell voters.—
Jimmy Lovrien,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
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Key Takeaways Most side effects of ginseng are mild and temporary, and serious side effects are generally associated with high doses and long-term use.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
30 May 2026
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In the last few days, Israeli forces have extended their incursion deeper into southern Lebanon and ordered new evacuations, while Hezbollah has continued to fire drones and rockets towards Israel and inflicted casualties on Israeli troops inside Lebanon.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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Ambiguous ‘yellow line’ When the ceasefire went into effect, Israel withdrew troops to a buffer zone demarcated by a yellow line, giving it control of just over half the strip.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Instead, pluralism, naturally associated with diversity and popular agency, was made into the cultural face of capitalism—it was branded as a false openness mimicking the free market, as a flattening that might cause art and art history to lose the threads of progress and quality.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Aguilar was taken into custody during a SWAT operation involving multiple law enforcement agencies.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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The backstory Park Hyatt Saigon stands on the former site of the Brinks Hotel Officers' Quarters, where US military officials lived during the Vietnam War.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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One is a military veteran who pitches himself as a lifelong civic servant and recently tossed his name in the hat.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
1 June 2026
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But institutional programming only runs as long as there’s a budget line for it, and when that line disappears so does the infrastructure that women were conditioned to rely on.—
Alli Kushner,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Achane had his shoulder cleaned up, and has been limited to conditioning work in the OTA sessions he’s participated in.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2026
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Small, concrete acts of kindness can mean more to a grieving person than words alone and eliminates the burden of having to ask for help.—
Julie Kaplow,
USA Today,
30 May 2026
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Her neighbors’ kindness helped her through her grief.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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That does degrade its usefulness for facial recognition, and failure rates can rise when using banking applications, for example.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Never underestimate the usefulness of a simple wood bench.—
Jenny Hughes,
The Spruce,
25 May 2026
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“Service.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/service. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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