closed shop

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Noun
  • Wash and fold is $1.60 plus tax per pound, with a 14-pound minimum.
    Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2025
  • The bundled stand folds to support the Asus ZenScreen MB16AHG and enables you to set your display in portrait as well as landscape orientations.
    Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The Value of Safe, Supportive Spaces These networks are also important for building confidence.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • For the first time since Nielsen began tracking TV use by platform four years ago — and probably the first time ever, considering broadcast’s dominant place for much of television history — over-the-air networks accounted for less than 20 percent of viewing in June.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Still, there have been subsequent complaints from media outlets, with one industry organization, the Video Advertising Bureau, calling on Nielsen to make fixes to its new data systems.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 July 2025
  • The Whitney in one of 19 organizations participating in this annual celebration of arts and culture on the West Side of Manhattan.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Through his entire four-year college career, Sanders showed off top-tier arm talent.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • Connor dealt with injuries throughout the majority of his college career, but a redshirt year and COVID-19 campaign allotted him six seasons.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • Its director, John J. Durham, was a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York who had spent a decade pursuing MS-13 cliques on Long Island.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 June 2025
  • The series was supposed to take place in Beverly Hills and follow a new clique that caused an accidental murder at a bachelorette party.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • The singer had last performed at the festival in 2023, where he was seen battling Tourette’s throughout his set.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025
  • Pankow's absence is noticed on set of the final season, Cline says.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The Miller clan, led by its head huncho Master P, were there to dominate everything from music to business in a way that had never been done before from southern artists (or MOST artists in fact).
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 26 June 2025
  • These are Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow, and Lady of the Lake. Baptism of Fire sees Geralt caught between two warring clans, and Ciri join a group of thieves called The Rats.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Hollywood heavyweight directors Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard will face off in the Emmys ring, as the filmmakers were nominated in the same comedy acting category for their roles in Apple TV+'s The Studio.
    EW.com, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • Princess Kate wore four rings on one finger during the outing.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 14 July 2025
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“Closed shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closed%20shop. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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