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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
Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Step Up: High Watch, which followed the students and faculty of High Water, Atlanta’s most cutthroat performing arts school, ran for one season on Starz, before the next two seasons streamed on YouTube’s subscription service.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
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
Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
While the hauling service appears to be keeping up with the county’s sludge piles for now, the contracts were issued under emergency procurement rules that don’t obligate the hauler to continue servicing the plant all day long.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
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Last year, the BBC and Amazon Music struck a deal that made BBC podcasts available on the streaming service outside the U.K. for the first time.
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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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But one day he gets called to service a rich man (Tom Stewart) and his wife (Patricia Carr), and the husband’s requests are far kinkier and more violent than Julian is comfortable carrying out.
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Take a moment to watch these other random acts of kindness captured on camera!—
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The viral video left many TikTok users emotional and grateful for the couple's kindness.—
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Make use of the giant black box on the wall—your TV.—
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Knowing which liquid compositions are most compatible with heating technologies will help determine the illnesses that could be treated through the use of inhalable devices.—
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The agency didn't respond to requests for information about the raid.—
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Free agency and the new league year gets underway March 12 and the Vikings have $60 million in cap space.—
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists President Trump ’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is openly seeking to inject politics into the military.—
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That he was only buried on Sunday underscores the militant group’s weakened state, after an Israeli military campaign in Lebanon last autumn nearly wiped out the group’s top military brass and killed thousands of its fighters, in addition to hundreds of civilians.—
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However, researchers from UH discovered a fungus from Hawai‘i’s nearshore environment that may have the ability to break down plastics, and to top it off, they may be conditioned to do it faster.—
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This blend of soothing cica extract and conditioning eucalyptus and rosemary oils leaves skin with a bouncy, silky-smooth texture while instantly breaking down your toughest full-coverage makeup.—
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Treasury's disclosure that a political appointee was granted read/write privileges to sensitive its databases will not help the Trump administration's case.—
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But only two players have the privilege of managing the team’s turn-up tunes.—
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The usefulness of the one-on-one meeting has become a topic for debate.—
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The Blue Trail asserts that productivity is the antithesis of human fulfillment, offering an alternative of sorts to the empty promises of capitalism and Soviet-style communism with its insistence that our wellbeing isn’t tied up with notions of usefulness.—
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On May 22, three soldiers who witnessed the Mount Suribachi flag-raising on the island of Iwo Jima were greeted by 1,000 schoolchildren.—
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The goal is to slow Russia's advance and weaken their fighting power while sacrificing as few Ukrainian soldiers as possible.—
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“Service.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/service. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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