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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as in pastor
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Recent Examples of shepherd
Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2025
To Intel, which still shepherds Thunderbolt’s development, this bandwidth is essential for modern computing.
—PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Katie Langford, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2025
That capped a swift decline in fortunes for the firebrand Poilievre, who a few months ago appeared to be a shoo-in to become Canada’s next prime minister and shepherd the Conservatives back into power for the first time in a decade.
—Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
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Verb
First under former Democratic leader Harry Reid and now under Chuck Schumer, the Illinois Democrat has shepherded the caucus through votes, while being a prominent voice on the leadership team for two decades.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2025
To Intel, which still shepherds Thunderbolt’s development, this bandwidth is essential for modern computing.
—PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
After nearly a year of roaming metro Denver and evading capture, the city’s cutest outlaw, a German shepherd named Park Hill Dave, has been caught and adopted into a forever home.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2025
That capped a swift decline in fortunes for the firebrand Poilievre, who a few months ago appeared to be a shoo-in to become Canada’s next prime minister and shepherd the Conservatives back into power for the first time in a decade.
—Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherd
Verb
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In other words, the engineers needed to keep the star tracker pointed as closely as possible to the guiding star while working.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Peter then guided me to a sparsely furnished sitting room for my royal audience.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
Noun
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According to Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the news, Hudson will portray Reverend Peters, a Baptist pastor at the head of a prominent Boston law enforcement dynasty that includes his daughter, District Attorney Mae Silver, and his granddaughter, Det.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, a Catholic parish in Logan Heights that has served immigrant peoples for its 100-year existence, where I am humbled to serve as its pastor, has entered as one of five plaintiffs in a suit against the federal government’s immigration agencies.—
Scott Santarosa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2025
Noun
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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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With El Camino Real’s boys team winning the City Section Open Division championship on Saturday after an upset over No. 1-seeded Venice, Lee has won City titles coaching El Camino Real’s boys, girls and beach volleyball teams, the Triple Crown of volleyball coaching.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2025
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This is Kelly’s first time coaching in the NFL since he was fired as the San Francisco 49ers’ coach in 2016.—
Tashan Reed,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
Noun
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And then the announcement: the unknown Robert Francis Prevost had been elected the vicar of Jesus Christ.—
Christopher Hale,
Time,
9 May 2025
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The vicar, who had a long-term smoking habit, wasn’t poisoned, the study determined.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
2 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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She was selected for BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew mentoring programme.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
6 May 2025
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King has been practicing music for most of his life and was even mentored by the late Blues legend James Cotton.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Tank Adams, is another favorite cowboy out of Oklahoma.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
13 May 2025
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South Florida Soul Rodeo 2025: Black cowboy culture and live R&B Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter Tour is not making a stop in Florida, but people will be partaking in cowboy culture at the South Florida Soul Rodeo this weekend.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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“Shepherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherd. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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