Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shop (around)
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As a couple, Erin, who runs an equestrian center at her home in Reno, and Serafini, who since 2017 had worked as an equipment operator at a remote Nevada gold mine, often quarreled with Gary and Wendy.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025 -
The two brothers lived together in San Pablo but quarreled often.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
15 July 2025
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In addition, competition between partners or clashing priorities can also undermine work productivity.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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That unity began to unravel in late 2021, when Morales and Arce clashed over the party’s future and the 2025 presidential nomination.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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Adler’s poems are filled with the texture of daily life, meals, gardens, handwritten notes, glances exchanged.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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In vessel and vehicular homicide cases, the law exchanges negligence for reckless operation of a boat or car, respectively.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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Sunny and Ulla have a tendency to bicker, and each can resort to brandishing cultural stereotypes as a cudgel when arguing with the other.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2025
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That was the thing that gave us the ability to feel quite free in the scenes — not changing the words or changing the sense of the scene — but trust trying different things, having that bickering back and forth, finding that easygoing relationship between the two of them.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
25 July 2025
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Cass has his own problems to deal with, though: He’s supposed to rendezvous on a forested planet with someone named Porco, but his disguise as an Imperial pilot works too well, and a group of squabbling sorta-rebels mistake him for the real thing.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Liars decided to burn down Clairmont to try and keep the family from squabbling over their fortunes and breaking apart, thinking it the symbol of Old World money.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
25 June 2025
Verb
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Its stock will begin trading Thursday on the Nasdaq, under the ticker symbol PSKY.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Beijing and Washington have stepped back from their most extreme positions at the height of a trade war in the spring, but maintain onerous tariffs on one another’s imports, and American lawmakers are increasingly calling for heavy oversight of Chinese firms trading on US stock markets.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Shop (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shop%20%28around%29. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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