shaper

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Recent Examples of shaper Instead, by moving first, African central banks and regulators could shape rules that reflect local realities, while signaling that Africa is not a passive taker of global digital finance standards but an active shaper. Gwera Kiwana, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025 In making such arrangements, Kaspersky Lab has positioned itself to be the leading shaper of the emerging cyber-industry across Africa. Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2025 The Huntington Beach resident, who is the son of Duke Aipa and grandson of legendary Hawaiian shaper Ben Aipa, was critically injured after being towed on his electric bike in California on the Saturday before his death. Skyler Caruso, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaper
Noun
  • Mom Eva Govea went to Abide for her prenatal and postpartum care, and also met with a lactation consultant and was able to buy donor milk through Abide.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Schwenz has previously worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, Meghan Markle, Arianna Huffington, Comcast and Viacom as a public relations consultant.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Powering future grids The China Three Gorges Corporation is the world’s biggest hydropower developer and operator.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • See the sportsbook operator's terms and conditions for important details.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On King Street, this quietly stylish boutique showcases the talents of leather smith Cole Avery and his wife.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos was said to have guarded the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece.
    Sofia Giannuzzi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After one thousand years of isolation, Iblis is given temporary freedom when Ka-young (Bae Suzy), a small town mechanic who doesn’t experience empathy, literally stumbles upon his lamp during a vacation in the deserts of Dubai.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Onstage at the Ford Pro Accelerate summit earlier this week, organized by Farley to bring together business leaders to discuss big-picture solutions, the Ford leader revealed that his own son was openly questioning whether to go to college, having really enjoyed his summer job as a mechanic.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cave is a professor at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in addition to being an artist.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Brown is the tour's headlining artist, with singer/rappers Jhene Aiko and Bryson Tiller also on the bill.
    John Beifuss, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some states have instituted requirements for websites with adult or pornographic content to verify visitors' age before granting access, although tech experts have pointed out VPNs can be used to get around those guardrails.
    Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The Asheville Citizen Times asked a public policy expert about the shutdown.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bettany played English poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer in the medieval action-comedy, which starred Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, who forges a new identity for himself as a knight when his master dies.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The show, starring Ricardo Gómez and Óscar Jaenada, explores the friendship between a shy young man preparing for the application tests for public office while working as a part-time taxi driver and a master bullfighter.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In recent months, as despotism intensified an increasing number of writers, scholars, and thinkers were declared foreign agents, and their books were taken off the shelves.
    Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of press freedom groups and more than 100 leading writers, journalists and scholars called for Guevara’s release from ICE detention.
    Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Shaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaper. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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