shopped (for)

verb

past tense of shop (for)
as in pursued
to go in search of engineers are still shopping around for solutions to several critical flaws in the aircraft's design

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shopped (for)
  1. pursued
  2. sought
  3. looked up
Verb
  • Those priorities overlap with issues Griffin and his investment firm have pursued in Tallahassee.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The company has pursued efforts to recreate extinct species, including the dodo and woolly mammoth.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pursued
Verb
  • Rescue operations were complicated, with police firing tear gas at people who had begun looting neighboring shops, as officers sought to clear the area and provide access to emergency response teams.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The policy sought to prevent the heavily subsidized vehicles from undercutting domestic production.
    — Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of sought
Verb
  • With The Keepers, Black Tomato co-founder Tom Marchant predicts that in a world where nearly anything can be looked up or generated in seconds, human knowledge and connection are the ultimate luxuries.
    — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The dressing room was now populated by brightly dressed women, all of whom looked up from applying makeup to stare tightly at her in the doorframe.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of looked up
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“Shopped (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shopped%20%28for%29. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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