as in to work (for)
to be a servant for
why would you waste your time slaving for a boss you can't stand?
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Robert Gleason, lead of parent advisory at the Rady Gender Clinic, noted that San Diego’s only medical center dedicated to serving children and adolescents created the resource only a decade ago and only after many years of advocacy from families.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2026 -
Our demand for power is vast, not least because of the enormous appetite of LLMs served by massive data centers.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Slave (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slave%20%28for%29. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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