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The phrase "adequately serves as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that fulfills a particular function or role sufficiently.
Example: "This software adequately serves as a tool for project management, helping teams stay organized and on track."
Alternatives: "sufficiently functions as" or "effectively acts as".
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It is less clear whether diabetic retinopathy adequately serves as a proxy for cerebrovascular damage to the brain.
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If cheerleading, empty rhetoric and self-congratulatory words about the president's questionable tax-cut bill could adequately serve as the ingredients of a promising economic recovery strategy, then President Bush's economic forum would win high marks.
The letter, which was signed by the New York archbishop, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, complained that the working document for the Synod — the Instrumentum Laboris, which was prepared by the Vatican and approved by Francis — could not "adequately serve as a guiding text or the foundation of a final document".
It can also adequately serve as a retriever should it be required.
Because of the precious nature of this incredible resource, we need to undertake the necessary regional planning to identify the appropriate adaptive strategies, involving both structural and non-structural approaches, in order to ensure that all regions of this country will continue to be adequately served as we face our future challenges.
Therefore, when NDFD measurements are difficult to obtain, ADL could adequately serve as a substitute.
Total Lymphocyte count can therefore adequately serve as a surrogate marker for CD4 count in HIV patients who are naïve for antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited areas.
Second, although the model can be used to assess the possibility of neutrality in the current context, it cannot adequately serve as a framework for estimation given the intricacies of host-pathogen interactions.
Another question deserving attention is whether height, weight, and bone area can adequately serve as proxies for body size, a crucial issue in understanding sex differences in imaging biomarkers.
Our survey of 77 eukaryotic genomes shows that profiling of species based on their bigram networks strongly correlates with the taxonomy classification, and this suggests that such networks may adequately serve as computational model for genomic linkages.
There is restricted availability of human placental tissue during early pregnancy and controversy about the availability of in vitro systems that can adequately serve as a model for early events in the human placenta (reviewed by Reference 40), a period in development when embryonic losses are high (41).
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