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Free sign upThe phrase "appear to serve" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the perceived function or role of something in a particular context.
Example: "The new policy changes appear to serve the interests of the employees more than the management."
Alternatives: "seem to fulfill" or "seem to function".
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The peculiar shapes of sphyrnid cephalofoils appear to serve several purposes.
Far from serving as critics of the bureaucracy, most Indian journalists appear to serve as its….
Others are endless strings of repeats that don't appear to serve any useful purpose.
Trump's actions are particularly alarming because they do not appear to serve his proclaimed goals of protecting this country.
The spherical hexamers appear to serve as a building block that self-assembles into various bigger oligomeric species.
Opaque decision-making processes, which may appear to serve special interests whether they do or not, breed distrust.
The Aln[Fem,Mn1−m]Si phases appear to serve as local cathodes accelerating Al dissolution leading to the formation of "trenches" around the intermetallic particles.
In the former case they do linguistic work based on their discrete semantic qualities, and in the latter they appear to serve a primarily grammatical function.
And in fact, the Pew report showed that even when multi-generational households do "not provide higher incomes, they do appear to serve as an economic safety net".
Others appear to serve all too familiar agency gripes - for instance, that pre-testing of advertisements can actually reduce effectiveness rather than enhance it.
On West Riverbank Street by the city's moat, a growing number of banks and hotels began to appear to serve the influx of merchants.
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