as in slaves (for)
to be a servant for
worked for a rich and powerful family
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
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For Turkish designer Buket Hoscan Bazman, brass serves a similar narrative role.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Works (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/works%20%28for%29. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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