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shepherding

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verb

present participle of shepherd

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Recent Examples of shepherding
Noun
Welcome to Wrexham, which follows Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s shepherding of Welsh club Wrexham AFC, has been a hit around the world for Disney+. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 May 2026 Part of that shepherding includes helping filmmakers decipher the film incentive program, Mansoori said. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026 Over the past few years, settlers have gradually blocked off access to the spring, which was vital to the nearby Palestinian shepherding community of Ras Ein al-Auja. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026 Not to mention, there's likely plenty of human shepherding going on behind the scenes. Scott Harrell, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026 And as for putting a stop to commercial shepherding, that just isn’t something that is ever going to happen. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 The 35-year-old, coming from Boston — where his shepherding of recent Red Sox drafts as assistant general manager helped stock much of the current roster — looked the part of a young, modern baseball executive, with his wife and four kids in tow. David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 While some of the lawyers spent as little as 20 minutes on the case, the legal shepherding of Saks Global clearly took over the lives of others. Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
There are also a lot of staffers behind the scenes, doing invisible but important jobs such as shepherding guest luggage securely. Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 Over the next few weeks, Keith will work on a transition with his talented senior creative team, Todd Baynes and Antonia Covault, who have been shepherding these successes alongside Keith and our partners at 101 Studios. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 14 May 2026 Yanoff is one of the commercial brokers shepherding the move. Anne Kadet, Curbed, 12 May 2026 Wang appeared as usual at last week’s city council meeting, shepherding along discussions on street paving, the upcoming budget and a potential e-bike ordinance. Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026 Even Cynthia, production’s on-camera proxy, couldn’t do enough shepherding to salvage the beginning of the trip as half of the full-time cast members failed to step up to the plate. Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 4 May 2026 Disney did a good job of shepherding the family and their friends through back-door entrances to many attractions, the Sentinel reported back then. Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026 Bellerose believes Parker had been shepherding them toward that request all along. Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026 Cox headed the influenza team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 22 years, shepherding it from a branch of 14 people to a division of over 100. Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherding
Noun
  • In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the agency had $500 million for forest management and fire prevention that was not directly tied to cap-and-invest or the bond — up from about $65 million two decades prior.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Her intellectual property and brand management company, TAS Rights Management, filed trademark applications covering short audio clips of her voice and her visual likeness.
    Daryl Lim, Fortune, 30 May 2026
Verb
  • The Sagittarius moon may be guiding you to a more sustainable rhythm.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 30 May 2026
  • These days, Nepali operators dominate the guiding industry on Everest.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • The 2026 model comes loaded with Subaru’s latest EyeSight driver-assist technologies, including automatic emergency steering, adaptive cruise control with lane centering, blind-spot warning, rear cross-traffic alert, reverse automatic braking and a surround-view monitor system.
    Tim Jackson, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
  • Things like four-wheel steering, CrabWalk, massive front trunk storage, exportable power for tools or campsites, and instant torque delivery with ridiculous acceleration.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Iranian senior leadership also has not signed off on the deal, the officials said.
    Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 29 May 2026
  • Research by Gao, Niu, and Yu published in Frontiers in Psychology found that intellectual humility in leadership cultivates team environments rooted in trust and collaboration, where leaders lean on collective wisdom rather than individual authority.
    Mary Hemphill, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Among frequent issues cited in the adverse event reports were administration of an extra or incorrect dose, issues with communication about a product, and prescribing errors.
    Maia Rosenfeld, NBC news, 29 May 2026
  • The administration and Kennedy Center leadership have increasingly emphasized patriotic programming as part of a broader effort to reshape Washington’s cultural landscape ahead of the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • The image of Brazil’s No 7 running rings around opposition defences — often literally — will forever be embedded in the nation’s collective memory.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • The Cloud 6 is an accessible, everyday bestseller from the Swiss running giant On.
    Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • That differs from many Ukrainian interceptor drones, which require continuous FPV-style piloting throughout the engagement and keep operators exposed for a longer period of time.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Many of the normal tasks of piloting are instead being handled by artificial intelligence.
    Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • Reimer, for his part, observed that, in many cases, governance is immature.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • The arrangement alarmed two top corporate governance experts who Fortune spoke with.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 May 2026

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“Shepherding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherding. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.

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