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as in kindness
an act of kind assistance
performed many services for the charitable organization
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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
Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
The mission marked the 72nd from all launch service providers on the Space Coast in 2024, tying the record set in 2023.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
Zee Krstic, goodhousekeeping.com, 11 May 2023
Some afternoons, the answer is no, which is just the reality for a small counter-service operation with a large menu apparently designed for almost every taqueria in the chain.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
Officials are working to determine whether the larger operation was to place similar devices on aircraft servicing the U.S. and U.S. allies.
—Arden Farhi, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Tech was joined in the green by top-performing consumer discretionary, which gained 5.85%, and communication services, which rose 4.1% for second place.
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The Spa at the Breakers in Palm Beach (pictured here) is just one service provider that includes pre-service consult to make guests facing physical limitations or special considerations feel incredibly welcome and at ease before stepping into their facilities.
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There is no commuter rail servicing those areas at the moment; there is a freight line, but the government of Lima and private sector partners in Peru will be rehabilitating the line to provide a commuter rail service, Sargent said.
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The braided and beaded trinkets are woven with messages of kindness, song lyrics or inside jokes among her devotees, who cluster in venue aisles and interminable merchandise lines at concerts to trade as part of their own secret society.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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One act of kindness and then to have that dream and that goal to be able to help others and do one step at a time to get there.Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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In 2022, Biden signed a bill that prohibited the use of TikTok on government devices.Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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For those items, Ayoub recommends using large moving bags which can be repurposed for use in your day to day life after the move.Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
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Several SpaceX executives have been asking questions about matters that go well beyond space policy, and interrogating federal spending across government agencies, people with direct knowledge of the talks say.Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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That will reportedly involve working closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), two regulatory agencies that vied for jurisdiction over the crypto industry under the Biden administration.Joel Khalili, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Unmanned objects in the sky have been spotted near U.S. military bases several times in the past year.Alyce McFadden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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From the day of death until the interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president or the governor of a state.Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2024
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Vitamin E, fatty acids, and argan oil hydrate to condition skin and invest in future protection by strengthening the skin barrier.Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
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The Mexican government could condition its immigration cooperation on greater labor mobility, particularly for Mexican citizens desiring to work legally in the United States but frustrated by the limited options.Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Instead, users who want to keep playing the game will have to pay for the privilege, as Nintendo is introducing a new offline, paid version of the game.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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The judge on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to delete images of Combs' handwritten notes taken during a search of his jail cell — which his lawyers said were protected by attorney-client privilege and were improperly seized.Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
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The usefulness of the UAVSAR’s image of Camp Century is still unclear, but the unexpected detection was certainly a blast from the past.Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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In choosing the Zumwalt, the Navy is attempting to add to the usefulness of a $7.5 billion warship that is considered by critics to be an expensive mistake despite serving as a test platform for multiple innovations.Royce Branning, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024
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It is based on her reporting about the murder by Salvadoran soldiers of more than 1,000 civilian residents of the village of El Mozote in 1981, and the return of survivors years later.Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
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Decades after Israeli soldiers raped and killed a Palestinian teenager during a massacre of Bedouins, a woman in Ramallah becomes obsessed with the story and sneaks into Israel to find out more.The Week US, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Service.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/service. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.
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