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[surv] / sɜrv /




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What do Ukrainian food, soft serve and Thai fusion tacos have in common?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

That’s been a big help for events where she only serves beignets because the soft serve machine accounts for a significant portion of the cart’s weight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

"I welcomed the opportunity to begin a new chapter in the relationship between our respective governments, based on mutual respect and a shared commitment to delivering for the people we serve," he said.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

It’s an island of design constraints and engineering decisions that evolved across decades to serve the company’s demanding, deep-pocketed customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

"Tell your master that he is welcome. He may come and serve me and my husband, the Duke, in a palace we have near here."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

That’s been a big help for events where she only serves beignets because the soft serve machine accounts for a significant portion of the cart’s weight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The area serves as a bedroom community for employment centers in Fort Myers and Naples, so its main thoroughfares are choked with outbound traffic in the morning and inbound traffic in the afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

During each docking and undocking sequence, the lander prototype will act as the target while Orion serves as the chaser spacecraft.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

ServiceNow serves as an enterprise’s system of record, or official data source.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

But the truth is—or so they taught me—that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task—to bring about what must be.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“Far fewer people living outside. Far more people indoors,” Raman, who has served on the council since 2020 and is chair of the City Council’s housing and homelessness committee, said at the press conference.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The fraction is smaller in the House, where hundreds of women have served.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Now, standing on the landing outside his door, the agents served him a subpoena demanding he testify before a federal grand jury.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

During the earlier trial in 2024, Roh's legal team had successfully argued that Chey had received significant help from his ex-wife's father, Roh Tae-woo, who had served as the country's president between 1988 to 1993.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Over two hundred thousand Peace Corps volunteers have served in 139 countries.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Wind & Sea soon became an Orange County staple, serving seafood and its self-proclaimed “best mai tai in the world” on Dana Point Harbor.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Mendelsohn learned of Freundlich’s plans for a solar observatory in 1917, while serving on the Russian front, and he began to draw.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

In 1978 she replaced her late husband Hubert, who represented Minnesota in the Senate after serving as Lyndon Johnson’s vice president.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

He called the sanctions decision "unlawful and unfair" and said the sanctions were meant "to prevent me from running and serving for Fide".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

They had proven to be some of Washington’s best combat troops and were there at Yorktown, serving in an integrated unit.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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