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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
Starkey said in a Facebook post that homeowners still paying a mortgage have to shoulder the burden of paying the mortgage and property taxes.
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Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Woody vines, such as wisteria and climbing rose, demand sturdy, permanent supports that can shoulder the weight of these heavy vines.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
While companies shouldered much of the tariff costs, at least some were passed to shoppers through higher shelf prices.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Abu Dhabi has shouldered a burden over the past decade, keeping its output low to help the group.
—Judah Taub, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Woody vines, such as wisteria and climbing rose, demand sturdy, permanent supports that can shoulder the weight of these heavy vines.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
While companies shouldered much of the tariff costs, at least some were passed to shoppers through higher shelf prices.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Abu Dhabi has shouldered a burden over the past decade, keeping its output low to help the group.
—Judah Taub, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoulder
Verb
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Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
8 May 2026
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In February, Ricciardi accepted a plea bargain that required him to plead guilty to three felony counts of risk of injury to a minor and one misdemeanor count of breach of peace.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
8 May 2026
Verb
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State troopers pulled him out of his seat and pushed him down the gallery.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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Potter pushed away people over and over again, and The Dark Wizard uses archival footage, various interviews, and Potter’s journals to try to understand why.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
Verb
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Human operators continuously monitor the systems and can assume manual control when necessary.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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The aether, it was assumed, was the medium inherent to space that all objects, from comets to planets to stars, traveled through.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
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After left-hander Cole Ragans exited Wednesday night’s game because of tricep and elbow soreness after just three innings, Luinder Avila took over and ran into trouble in the fifth inning.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
7 May 2026
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How might a chloroplast elbow its way through the crowd?—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
4 May 2026
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Dean was born in a small town in South Dakota, educated in a one-room schoolhouse, and through grit and determination built a small garbage business into Waste Management — a global company serving multiple continents with over $9 billion in revenue by his retirement.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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One character, a troubled traveling man named Herald Loomis (Joshua Boone), bears the scars of post-slavery enslavement after being abducted into seven years of hard labor under Joe Turner.—
Rodney Ho,
AJC.com,
6 May 2026
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It was triggered, in his telling, by the record oil price spike of June 2008, which forced ordinary households to absorb more than $2,000 in additional energy costs on top of adjustable-rate mortgage resets that were already squeezing them.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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Gas prices, housing costs and groceries are squeezing people who are working hard yet still falling behind.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
4 May 2026
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Outpost and City Street are preparing to undertake $30 million in infrastructure work, which includes turning the existing pond into a lake and building restrooms and a boathouse that will include a concession stand.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
1 May 2026
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“Shoulder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoulder. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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