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shopping (around)

verb

present participle of shop (around)
as in comparison shopping

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  1. clashing
  2. quarreling
  3. wrangling
Verb
  • The other has brought together clashing frontier lab leaders Dario Amodei of Anthropic, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk, along with a chorus of AI researchers.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Ground fighting intensified at the beginning of September, with troops clashing on multiple fronts.
    — Guy Davies, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of clashing
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  • But for Benjamin Franklin, the Haudenosaunee’s federal governing model was a perfect solution for how to get quarreling colonies to work together.
    — Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026
  • In another clip, a student records himself quarreling with a teacher asking him to take out his notes.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of quarreling
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  • No mothers wrangling two children and a baby in a stroller, as my mother once had.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026
  • As the quartet’s planning proceeds, complete with a Lego model of the bank premises, Hamza’s wrangling for a larger share of the haul is relentless.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of wrangling
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“Shopping (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shopping%20%28around%29. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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