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storekeeper

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as in shopkeeper

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Recent Examples of storekeeper In Sejong, a city in the country’s central region, a storekeeper who was checking for rain damage to his shop was killed when a landslide hit, according to the government. —

Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 15 July 2023 Rita portrayed George's wife Carolyn, a storekeeper at Doan's Crossing who later befriends James' wife Margaret (Faith Hill). —

Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 16 July 2023 Three men died in the attack – the Pany’s storekeeper First Class Charles Lee Ensminger, Standard Oil tanker captain Carl H. Carlson and Italian reporter Sandro Sandri – with coxswain Edgar C. Hulsebus dying later that night. —

Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023 In the novel’s backstory, Salim has set off alone by car, determined to uproot himself from the stultifying traditions of his own community, long established on the continent’s east coast, and to build a new life as a storekeeper in the distant interior in the city at the bend of a great river. —

Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for storekeeper

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Today, bricks are flying through the windows of innocent shopkeepers in Canada—thrown by none other than the president of the United States.

— Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
The shopkeepers, William Perry and Cephas Parker, in turn told Northup’s wife, Anne, and his attorney, Henry Bliss Northup, a relative of the former enslaver of Northup’s father.

— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2025