serving as
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The country’s most famous athlete is, without a doubt, former world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, who racked up titles in eight different weight classes before briefly serving as a senator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He’s been just serving as the designated hitter in the meantime, while managing lingering inflammation and soreness in his left knee, primarily aggravated by pitching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Crown Prince Haakon, 53, the successor to the Norwegian throne, has been serving as regent while his father is on leave.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
When Henry Allen joined the military, it never occurred to him that he would end up serving as a machine gunner in Vietnam.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
