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
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
24 June 2026
The goal is to shepherd at least two drugs or treatments through the first two phases of clinical trials, says Ransohoff, with the hope that at that point, pharmaceutical companies would be willing to step in to take them the rest of the way to market.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
24 June 2026
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
Kylie and Jason are parents to daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 5, Bennett, 3, and Finn, 1, and currently have two dogs — an Irish wolfhound named Patty and a German shepherd named Freddy.
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Rachel McRady,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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Verb
They were shepherded in to tour the halls of the retirement community, then seen out the front door and back to their home in the courtyard.
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Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
24 June 2026
The goal is to shepherd at least two drugs or treatments through the first two phases of clinical trials, says Ransohoff, with the hope that at that point, pharmaceutical companies would be willing to step in to take them the rest of the way to market.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
24 June 2026
Noun
Among those transferred out was Flora, a 10-year-old brindle shepherd who the organization said came in emaciated and missing her left front leg.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
Kylie and Jason are parents to daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 5, Bennett, 3, and Finn, 1, and currently have two dogs — an Irish wolfhound named Patty and a German shepherd named Freddy.
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Rachel McRady,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherd
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Queiroz is confident his experience can help guide a team of talented players, many of whom also play in some of the biggest pro leagues in the world.
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Whether the future is guided by a more centralized federal framework or a complex matrix of state-level consumer protections, the race to a multi-billion-dollar digital overhaul is already well underway.
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That was the end of things until last October, when the Washington County Attorney’s Office in Utah received a tip from Barry Diamond — senior pastor of Legacy Christian Church, where Vander Meer had worked as a youth pastor — that Bernadette may have been pushed to her death.
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Chadwick was a former pastor of Forest Hill.
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The thoughtful decor features pendant lamps inspired by traditional Rwandan headdresses, crafted by local fashion designer Joselyne Umutoniwase, and tasseled armchairs that riff on the traditional Rwandan shepherdess skirts.
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Dusty May's only dream growing up was coaching high school basketball in his home state of Indiana.
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The camp is being led by Geordie Kinnear, who coaches the Charlotte Checkers, the Panthers’ AHL affiliate.
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Nearly every murder is solved by the end of the episode, but despite the unusual twist of having the village vicar team up with the police, the real action comes from the relationships among the characters.
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The sacred meets the secular in this long-running pairing of a young vicar with a worldly police detective in the titular idyllic Cambridgeshire village during the 1950s and ‘60s.
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Rather than escape, the sheepherder accepts his death.
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Order it with your choice of strawberry, blueberry, or chocolate topping at The Star Hotel, which opened in 1910 as an 11-room boarding house for sheepherders and still rings a dinner bell before mealtime, in the town of Elko.
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Brady is actively mentoring Mendoza, advising him to embody supreme competitiveness, leadership and mental and physical toughness to earn his teammates' respect.
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Of all his accomplishments, Connaughton took the greatest pride in mentoring generations of graduate students and teaching assistants, according to his obituary.
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.
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“Shepherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherd. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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