CLOSED SHOPS Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

closed shops

noun

plural of closed shop

as in galères

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Noun

Scrub away any grime with a cloth and a toothbrush, reaching into the tighter folds to ensure all residue is removed.

— Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026
This year’s edition folds in the Co-Production Market Selects program, pitch sessions through the Tasveer Film Fund, industry panels, fireside conversations and networking events.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of folds

Noun

The same report found that 73% of respondents call AI essential, but only 13% of organizations have integrated it into real workflows.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Give them the economics, the reasoning beneath the numbers, and partner with organizations like Economics Arkansas, which has equipped our teachers to do exactly that since 1962.

— Michael Poore Special to the Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of organizations

Noun

Four people with knowledge of the matter, including a diplomatic source, told Reuters that the TPLF had ordered both companies to shut down the networks.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
The other four networks in the pool, including ABC News, Fox News, CBS News and NBC News, suspended their participation in protest of the ban.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of networks

Noun

Online networks’ native agents were bringing more adaptive systems to a changing art world, using tactics celebrated in their own communities but until recently taboo in the towers of high culture.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The new 3rd District brings together Sacramento suburbs and rural communities in Nevada, El Dorado and Placer counties.

— Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of communities

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The Harold Hamm Health Campus also brings together six health professions colleges and the university’s graduate college—more than 4,100 students—to build a pipeline to address those issues.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Some colleges — like Folsom Lake — offer associate degrees or certificates in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of colleges

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So the players will get a day off to cool down but have to spend the night at the pub quiz in teams of Ted’s choosing, never mind the cliques.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Amid the crushes, cliques, and teenage angst, two sisters set out to define themselves on their own terms.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cliques

Noun

Ali Mahmoud Ali, the group's Sudan analyst, said that the latest clashes risk bringing in more Nuba clans into the fight and could increase divisions across South Kordofan, where communities are facing an already dire humanitarian situation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
All Palestinian clans and families in Gaza would also be a target for disarmament, which would have an impact on the future of Hamas and Palestinian armed struggle.

— Mkhaimar Abusada, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of clans

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To prevent women from contracting HIV from their partners while pregnant, antenatal clinics hope to start offering vaginal rings, which slowly release a protective antiretroviral drug over the course of a month.

— David Cox, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026
Even a dust-collector discrete desktop GPU runs rings around it.

— Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 26 Sep. 2026

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