Maintaining
Serving and maintaining are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Serving" instead an adjective "Maintaining".
Serving
Serving noun - The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone.
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Synonyms for Serving
Maintaining and serving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintaining" instead an adjective "Serving".
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He then offered Xanatos a choice between a single wish or Puck maintaining his Owen identity and serving him with Undying Loyalty for as long as Xanatos lived.
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Face Death with Dignity: Brock Pike, a self-serving and treacherous psychopath as he might be, faces death while maintaining his composure when he thinks it to be inevitable.
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Notably, when Abigail Hearns, Miss Owens, becomes the first Grayson woman to join the Navy, she refuses to cut her hair, despite the inconvenience of maintaining her waist-length brown hair as a serving officer.
Source: Long Hair Is Feminine
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