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as in stores
also shoppes
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers
the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state
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as in factories
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods
a machine shop
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as in dialects
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop
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Recent Examples of shops
Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
The government added that plug-in solar panels, which homeowners can install on balconies, would be available within shops over the coming months.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
While many have sought to mark the Persian New Year, the most important holiday in the Iranian calendar, many shops remained closed across the capital, while armed forces maintained checkpoints on nearby highways with machine guns mounted onto pickup trucks.
—Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of millions of cameras have been installed above shops, in homes and on street corners across the world, many connected to the internet and poorly secured.
—ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
But don’t worry, liquor stores and cannabis shops would be excluded (for now).
—Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
The error has caused many customers to make a trip to nearby auto shops.
—Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
The last in that list is located in Austin’s bustling Warehouse District, where old warehouses have been ingeniously redesigned to host restaurants, bars, and shops.
—Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2026
Colorado is also building a system for licensed facilitators to offer supervised use of hallucinogenic mushrooms for a variety of mental health issues, but the law did not authorize over-the-counter retail sales at gas stations, smoke shops or corner stores.
—David Kroll, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
Congratulations to all of the sandwich shops, to all the customers that have supported us over the last 34 years, everybody everywhere.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
The government added that plug-in solar panels, which homeowners can install on balconies, would be available within shops over the coming months.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
While many have sought to mark the Persian New Year, the most important holiday in the Iranian calendar, many shops remained closed across the capital, while armed forces maintained checkpoints on nearby highways with machine guns mounted onto pickup trucks.
—Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of millions of cameras have been installed above shops, in homes and on street corners across the world, many connected to the internet and poorly secured.
—ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
But don’t worry, liquor stores and cannabis shops would be excluded (for now).
—Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
The error has caused many customers to make a trip to nearby auto shops.
—Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
The last in that list is located in Austin’s bustling Warehouse District, where old warehouses have been ingeniously redesigned to host restaurants, bars, and shops.
—Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2026
Colorado is also building a system for licensed facilitators to offer supervised use of hallucinogenic mushrooms for a variety of mental health issues, but the law did not authorize over-the-counter retail sales at gas stations, smoke shops or corner stores.
—David Kroll, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops
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New stores will open across tier-one to tier-three cities in the world’s second-largest economy.—
Bloomberg,
Bloomberg,
26 Mar. 2026
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The retailer, with stores in Southlake, Farmers Branch, Plano and Dallas, announced the news on social media on Wednesday.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Mar. 2026
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Jeff Bezos plans to invest $100 billion to bring AI to factories.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Demand for compute power is only increasing, and many of the products that go into building massive compute factories, like chips, memory, and copper, can’t just be ramped up overnight, or even in a matter of years.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Human communication with honeyguides in northern Mozambique occurs in local dialects.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Not between English and other languages but between the dialects spoken by different corners of the industry.—
Amber Nigam,
Harvard Business Review,
11 Mar. 2026
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But Oregon's timber harvest has hovered near historic lows, several mills have closed and logging on federal lands has been limited.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
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Because of its steel mills, coke ovens – which burn coal to produce fuel for steel production – steep valleys that trap pollution and a history of inadequate local enforcement of the Clean Air Act, the Pittsburgh metropolitan area continues to rank among the nation’s most polluted regions.—
Ella Whitman,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
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That’s why manufacturers liquefy the gas in plants called trains, like the two destroyed in the recent attack, which occurred March 18 at the Ras Laffan Industrial City production site in Qatar.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
23 Mar. 2026
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The threat by Tehran puts at risk both electrical supplies and water in the Gulf Arab states, particularly as the desert nations commingle their power stations with desalination plants crucial for supplying drinking water.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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The robot is expected to help visitors navigate the airport more easily by providing directions, terminal updates, and travel information in multiple languages.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2026
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Fifty languages are spoken by a dozen ethnic groups, which include my tribe, the Ogoni, the Ijaw (the delta’s largest ethnic group), as well as the Ilaje, Ibibio, Andoni, Itsekiri, and Urhobo peoples.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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The museum has the world’s largest collection of paintings by Kandinsky, plus works by Picasso, Klee, Miró, and more.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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Not every author is so concerned by how their works are reimagined.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
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In the October 2025 study that followed families over time, children who spent more time with digital media at age 2 tended to have smaller vocabularies at age 3, regardless of the child’s temperament or the caregiver’s personality traits.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Teams were asked to learn new interfaces, adopt new vocabularies, and take responsibility for outputs whose behavior remained probabilistic rather than deterministic.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Shops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shops. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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