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as in attending
to be a servant for
he served his master faithfully for 20 years
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as in sufficing
to be enough
they made the pasta serve for eight guests
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as in doing
to be fitting or proper
those old riding boots will serve for now, but you'll need newer ones for the horse show
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as in treating
to behave toward in a stated way
my parents served me well in preparing me for life
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as in acting
to have a certain purpose
the harsh punishment served to teach everyone a lesson
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as in benefiting
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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as in producing
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Recent Examples of serving
Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Zerner recommends eating a 3-ounce serving of fatty fish, like sardines, twice a week.
—Erica Sweeney, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
Cheesecake can be baked and refrigerated for up to two days before serving.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
The restaurant’s summer food specials go all-in on seafood, including a buttery, tomato-forward crab bisque ($14) and a Neapolitan linguine alla vongole ($32) featuring a generous serving of clams over pasta.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Zerner recommends eating a 3-ounce serving of fatty fish, like sardines, twice a week.
—Erica Sweeney, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
Place in a decorative serving bowl or scatter down the center of your table.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
Cheesecake can be baked and refrigerated for up to two days before serving.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
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Verb
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Ryan DeVries, who works in property management and volunteers as a first responder, left his firearm in his car before attending Kirk’s event, anticipating metal detectors.—
Rachel Wolf , Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Both parents frequently share photos on Facebook of the family attending sporting games together, spending holidays together and going on vacations.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In doing so, Martin implicated billionaire bankers, major American corporations, and Colombia’s political elite.—
Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
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Back on the balcony, the magician was doing his best to charm basketball players Devin Booker and Jordan Clarkson with card tricks.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The new information suggested at least modest progress in an investigation into a killing that law enforcement was treating as the latest instance of political violence to convulse the United States across the ideological spectrum.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Breakthroughs like this new discovery give the field fresh momentum, offering hope that phages could one day join or even replace antibiotics in treating stubborn infections.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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With more than 100,000 copies sold from her four EP releases between 2022 and 2024, Chaeyeon took on acting this summer as one of the lead roles in the web series Fresh Romance.—
Jeff Benjamin,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The resulting unrolled network consists of multiple stages, each acting like a mini-network that mimics one iteration of optimization.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But, Marks remained open to many perspectives, benefiting greatly from male mentors as well.—
Jack McCullough,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Chinese e-commerce giant is also benefiting from AI hype, thanks to its open-source Qwen models.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Rudin is producing the play with Barry Diller and Shawn, who is co-producing.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Liam Coutts and Laura Rees are co-producing.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The evening includes pre-dinner champagne, a six-person private dinner hosted by Tan and a private tour at Singapore's National Gallery, an art museum housed in two national monuments, according to Sotheby's.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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The dinner sets the tone for Southbound 's heritage-rich but forward-looking feel, rooted in the flavors that define the state.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But Rinzel seems uniquely well-suited to handling it.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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As their team and systems scale, so too will their ability to serve multi-market investors who want a unified team handling all of their short-term rental assets.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Serving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serving. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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