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as in store
also shoppe
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers
the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state
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as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop
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as in to inform (on)
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Recent Examples of shop
Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
With an arrest warrant out for him, Ammon’s giving me the low-down in the shop out back of his home in Emmett, Idaho.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
Keepsake Gifts for New Parents Keepsake gifts can be special because new parents don't have time or energy to shop for them just yet.
—Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 5 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Some of them will have pop-up shops and special sales.
—Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
With an arrest warrant out for him, Ammon’s giving me the low-down in the shop out back of his home in Emmett, Idaho.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
Home to the biggest denim flagships and influential department stores in the world, London takes the crown for being one of the most exciting and surprising spots to shop for all things denim.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
Keepsake Gifts for New Parents Keepsake gifts can be special because new parents don't have time or energy to shop for them just yet.
—Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shop
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Offices, banks, stores, post office, more Detroit Free Press endorsements:Picks for Michigan US House, Senate and House Ford concluded his campaign in Grand Rapids.Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
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Conditions associated with high ferritin levels include: Hemochromatosis: With this condition, the body absorbs and stores too much iron, leading to iron buildup in organs such as the liver, pancreas, and heart.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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Knock-on effects of the strike have reverberated far beyond Boeing’s West Coast factories.Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024
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But once up on stage, her reasonable-sounding language was replaced by the consistent mispronunciation of Kamala Harris's first name and exaggerations of the scale of recent Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) layoffs at their factory in nearby Warren, Michigan.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Cap’n Don Johnson is alerted at the brig (terminology check?) and orders the ship to drop buoys, informing us that only 15 percent of overboard cases survive.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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That, and a diet of 1970s and 1980s ‘exploitation movies,’ or ‘genre titles’ to use contemporary terminology.Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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And just like that, the chain’s most famous site opened a year later in a former derelict paper mill in Elephant and Castle.Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Lenzing Denim team was on site to exhibit, and we were inspired to see all the ways that TENCEL™ is being used by our mill partners.Carved in Blue, Sourcing Journal, 30 Oct. 2024
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The delightful elocution of their dry-as-martini witticisms (dialect coach Nancy Carlin) adds to the joys of this period piece.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Scholars say their separation from the mainland caused residents to retain much of their African heritage, including their unique dialect and skills and crafts such as cast-net fishing and basket-weaving.Russ Bynum and Emily Wagster Pettus, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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The Rebels turned in a dominant defensive performance against Carson Beck and the Bulldogs a week after Jaxson Dart set school passing records in a blowout of Arkansas.Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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After a slow start to the season, All-Pro tight end Travis Kelce turned in his second consecutive big game.Kevin Dotson, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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While these spaces contained only a handful of struggling plants that likely sprouted from seeds dropped by birds, the gophers were allowed to do what gophers do best for 24 hours.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Investment into scaling up is already being made: Heidelberg Materials AG is building a plant to produce calcined clays in Ghana while also assessing the suitability of other locations.Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Beat communicated with advanced and exotic languages, its wide-ranging vocabulary including experimental, art-rock,pop, jazz, funk, new-wave and gamelan elements.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
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But, as historian Robert O. Smith writes, since the phrase entered the country’s vocabulary, some Jewish Americans have firmly objected to it.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shop. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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