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Sometimes a word has to serve time in lexical purgatory before it can be admitted to the Big Book.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Shah, 52, served her sentence at FPC Bryan in Texas, a minimum-security federal prison where Ghislaine Maxwell and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes currently serve time.
—Tracy Wright , Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Bernard Kilpatrick would later serve time as part of the public corruption case that sent his son to jail.
—Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Mitchell will serve her sentence in Ramsey County, consistent with a request from her attorneys to serve time closer to her children.
—Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Shah, 52, served her sentence at FPC Bryan in Texas, a minimum-security federal prison where Ghislaine Maxwell and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes currently serve time.
—Tracy Wright , Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Bernard Kilpatrick would later serve time as part of the public corruption case that sent his son to jail.
—Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Mitchell will serve her sentence in Ramsey County, consistent with a request from her attorneys to serve time closer to her children.
—Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for serve time
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“Serve time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serve%20time. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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