serve as

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Mr. Blanche has the judgment, experience and character to serve as attorney general.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 12, 2026

According to Riesenhuber, transferring a well-learned skill into the temporal cortex frees the prefrontal cortex to focus on new challenges, allowing existing knowledge to serve as the foundation for future learning.

From Science Daily • Jul. 12, 2026

Ranch in Burbank will serve as broadcast headquarters during the Los Angeles Olympics and Paralympic Games in two years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2026

"Under no circumstances, however, can this concern serve as a vehicle for promoting views that call for the adoption of lethal and illegal methods against bears, as we recently saw in Western Macedonia," he said.

From Barron's • Jul. 9, 2026

Perhaps it should be a sailboat; his jacket might serve as a sail.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig