as in to guide
to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed
shepherding her through the procedure of taking out a loan
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Recent Examples of shepherd
Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Still today, they’re taken by shepherds and their often-huge flocks, traveling to milder climates nearer the coasts for winter and to higher mountain pastures in summer.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
After shepherding his Jurassic World trilogy to the box-office tune of nearly $4 billion worldwide, the filmmaker turned his attention to his production banner, Metronome Film Company.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
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Verb
German shepherds were initially bred in Germany in the late 1800s to guard and protect sheep.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Still today, they’re taken by shepherds and their often-huge flocks, traveling to milder climates nearer the coasts for winter and to higher mountain pastures in summer.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky personally oversaw the operation, with preparations shepherded by SBU chief Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
After shepherding his Jurassic World trilogy to the box-office tune of nearly $4 billion worldwide, the filmmaker turned his attention to his production banner, Metronome Film Company.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherd
Verb
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His legacy was the tradition of limited government and individual responsibility that guides us back to our true north when America gets off track.—
Linda McMahon,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 July 2025
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And last month, Kennedy dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, a move that concerned public health officials across the country.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN Money,
5 July 2025
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The fan is just one of many sent to the church in recent days after its pastor, Village Trustee Randall White, publicized the plight of residents trying to survive nearly 100-degree temperatures without the benefit of working air conditioners.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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Patrick Moses, pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church and 2024 Democratic candidate for sheriff, is running to fill the unexpired term of Crystal Gayden.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2025
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There’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin.—
Steven Litt,
cleveland,
29 Jan. 2023
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And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2022
Verb
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In 2017 he was forced to coach the Golden State Warriors because Steve Kerr was having health issues due to a back injury.—
Tom Rende,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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When not coaching her kids on how to maim an attacker, Hailey mans the radio.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Members include a vicar with a lurid fantasy life, a clever and stifled housewife, a sorrowful retired accountant and a blowhard.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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For instance, in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, vicar for clergy Fr.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
Noun
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After Joe translates for Washington in an interrogation with a sheepherder whose land borders the ravine where Vines’s body was found, Washington finally makes her suspicions plain.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
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Whitfield doubles down on his previous orders, instructing the former sheepherder to murder all the Duttons and dump their bodies in the lawless border town.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Verb
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There are many mentoring programs in Baltimore: Caroline Center, sponsored by the School Sisters of Notre Dame; Sisters Circle, Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood, and my personal favorite, OrchKids, and the list goes on.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
27 June 2025
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Monticello was one of several stops on a 14-day journey North for Helton and eight other middle and high schoolers in Leadership LINKS Inc., a mentoring program for Black girls and young women.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Maybe that’s why, 20 years on, the film still feels devastatingly real: The delusion is not unique to two cowboys on a mountain.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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Until then, so long, cowboy. Head-turn of the century (episode 14) Jeremiah appears to deliberate until the last second before deciding to recouple with bombshell Iris, leaving Huda single and vulnerable.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
21 June 2025
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“Shepherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherd. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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