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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alone serves as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something by itself fulfills a particular function or role without the need for additional elements.
Example: "In this experiment, the control group alone serves as a benchmark for comparison against the experimental group."
Alternatives: "solely functions as" or "only acts as".
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Moreover, the benzamidine molecule alone serves as a negative allosteric modulator for BLT1.
American troops perform more than a military function, they emphasize, and their presence alone serves as the best deterrent not only to Serbia, but also to ethnic extremists on both sides in a period of major political change.
The internal standard alone serves as a frequency and quantitative reference for proton NMR.
Thiol-functionalized graphene oxide alone serves as either a crosslinking agent or an amphiphile for the formation of composite Langmuir films.
"The Paris ballroom scene, birthed by Lesseindra Ninja and Mother Steffie Mizrahi, is still small and young even though we keep growing everyday," says house member Kiddy Smile, whose 2013 track "Get Myself Alone" serves as the video's soundtrack.
More troublesome, however, is the incorrect assertion that the trajectory of Social Security costs has the slightest thing to do with abortion -- let alone serves as the prime aggravating factor.
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Injection of culture medium or cell alone served as controls.
Patients whose sperm were incubated with sperm-washing medium alone served as controls.
There is no distinctive nominative (subject) case marker, the word stem or, in some cases, the root alone serving as the nominative.
No one can say how strong this burst of citizen activism will prove to be — whether it can recreate the crowd of 50,000 that gathered Dec. 10 in Moscow, let alone serve as the foundation of a permanent political force.
Routinely, the brinjal plants irrigated with water alone served as control.
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