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as in to accept
to take to or upon oneself
agreed to shoulder the burden of caring for their elderly father
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Recent Examples of shoulder
Many single mothers shoulder the financial responsibility of raising children while also being the primary caretakers, a dynamic that affects their labor market participation and income, according to a recent analysis by the Center for American Progress.
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Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping dead bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Others volunteer to water plants, write a weekly newsletter, launder aprons, check on members who haven’t shown up in a while, and shoulder other tasks needed to keep the clubhouse humming.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping dead bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Others volunteer to water plants, write a weekly newsletter, launder aprons, check on members who haven’t shown up in a while, and shoulder other tasks needed to keep the clubhouse humming.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris refused to accept any responsibility for the inflation that has devastated the middle-class and lower-income groups.Richard Stacy, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2024
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Trending Nationally In concession speech, Kamala Harris says US must accept election results while urging supporters to keep fighting Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The key question: What does death awareness do to people? After writing about death, people tend to quickly move on, pushing thoughts of it from consciousness with distractions, rationalizations, and other tactics.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Game of Thrones pushed the genre snobbery toward fantasy.Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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By investing in infrastructure and assuming the associated risks, these services allow stakeholders to operate without altering their business processes.Oleg Chanchikov, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The approval is a relief for Boeing’s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, who assumed the role in August to steer the company through its safety and manufacturing crises.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement After elbowing their way out of the state’s first competitive Senate primary in a generation, Schiff and Garvey have faced off in a race that hasn’t been much of one at all.Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Unlike Frieze’s reconfigured layout, which elbowed the mega-galleries to the back of the tent and gave the small and midsize operations more exposure at the front, the big galleries are given the limelight in Paris.George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Marcus was born in 1929, months before the Great Depression, and his family lived in a fourth-floor walk-up tenement in Newark, New Jersey.Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Home Depot was born only after Marcus and Blank were fired from Handy Dan Improvement Centers, Inc. in April 1978.Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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For the third time this season, Jojo calmly squeezed the trigger and neatly folded the first tom.Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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These new prices would squeeze consumer budgets, especially for low-income households that spend triple as much of their monthly budgets on apparel as high-income households spend, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Annie Nova,Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Royal Commission of Inquiry was the longest and most complex inquiry undertaken by New Zealand.Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, the campaign of Green Party candidate Jill Stein requested a recount that was fully undertaken in Wisconsin, and requested one in Michigan (which was halted) and Pennsylvania (which was denied).Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Shoulder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoulder. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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