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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
Jake Angelo, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
The championship is part of the area's World Snow Celebration, a series of events that include a collectible pin crawl featuring local shops, live music, an indoor market, and a 5K run.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 28 Apr. 2026
The eight-story vertical indoor mall will be replaced by a three-story retail center with small shops, flagship stores and a collection of new restaurants, according to a statement by its owner.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
The race route took runners through the theme park, past dormant rides and shops, with staff offering encouragement and snacks.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Burbank approved a temporary moratorium on new gun dealers in 2022 after concerns emerged about the concentration of shops there following that year’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Santa Fe Dry Goods — This Santa Fe institution and its sibling shops, Wild Life and Workshop, go heavy on the Japanese and Belgian sides of things, balancing craftsmanship and wearability with a little weirdness.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
Urban planners say tall towers should include street-level shops and restaurants, and be built near transit hubs to reduce traffic congestion.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
Downtown Soufrière has a weekly outdoor farmers market, local artisan shops, and daily boat excursions.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
But Slok attributes this to young people starting companies, not to a boom in entry-level associate hiring at law firms or Big Four accounting shops.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
The championship is part of the area's World Snow Celebration, a series of events that include a collectible pin crawl featuring local shops, live music, an indoor market, and a 5K run.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 28 Apr. 2026
The eight-story vertical indoor mall will be replaced by a three-story retail center with small shops, flagship stores and a collection of new restaurants, according to a statement by its owner.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
The race route took runners through the theme park, past dormant rides and shops, with staff offering encouragement and snacks.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Burbank approved a temporary moratorium on new gun dealers in 2022 after concerns emerged about the concentration of shops there following that year’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Santa Fe Dry Goods — This Santa Fe institution and its sibling shops, Wild Life and Workshop, go heavy on the Japanese and Belgian sides of things, balancing craftsmanship and wearability with a little weirdness.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
Urban planners say tall towers should include street-level shops and restaurants, and be built near transit hubs to reduce traffic congestion.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
Downtown Soufrière has a weekly outdoor farmers market, local artisan shops, and daily boat excursions.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops
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Recently, signs inside and outside of the front entrances of Publix stores throughout the state, including in South and Central Florida, seemed to indicate the policy has shifted.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
7 May 2026
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So far this year, places where Californians could’ve been exposed to measles have included Los Angeles International Airport, Disneyland, stores, restaurants, an emergency room, an urgent care center, a gym and what authorities described as an educational enrichment program for children.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Rather than concentrating only on the finished garment, Bluesign evaluates the factories behind it, including their chemical management, environmental practices and worker safety systems.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
6 May 2026
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Some miners moved into nearby factories run by the likes of Hoover, Burberry, Ford and Panasonic.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
6 May 2026
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The small cadre of community radio stations in coastal Bangladesh, using local dialects, provide an early-warning system against tsunamis, flooding, and cyclones.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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The British colonial name of New Cut was different from other nearby creeks—Wadmalaw, Bohicket, Leadenwah, Stono—all named in Indigenous dialects.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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Edinburg This storybook town along Route 11 is home to the Edinburg Mill, one of the last original grain mills in the Shenandoah Valley.—
Hayley Hutson,
Travel + Leisure,
2 May 2026
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The two biggest steel producers, Mobarakeh Steel and Khuzestan Steel, as well as smaller mills, halted production.—
Amir-Hussein Radjy,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Space plants according to their mature width, approximately 12-18 inches apart.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
4 May 2026
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And while plants have to remain mostly stationary, chloroplasts do not.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
4 May 2026
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The Final Jeopardy question, which fell under the world languages category, asked for the alphabetically first and last of South Africa's 12 official languages.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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When there is no war on, the shelter functions as a community center, complete with a Filipino church, a refugee health clinic, and retailers catering to customers in more than a dozen languages.—
Theia Chatelle,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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The city is home to several in-the-works multi-million dollar developments, and is an attractive place for people looking to move to Parker County for its spacious land and proximity to successful school districts.—
Tanya Babbar,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 May 2026
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Like Ando’s architecture, Turrell makes the kind of immersive, site-specific art people travel great distances for, and Benesse has commissioned several of the American artist’s works, the rest of which can be found at the Chichu Art Museum.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
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By the end of the learning unit, Burton said growth in the children could be seen as their vocabularies expanded to using words such as thermometer, blood pressure and punctured.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2026
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Shallow, misogynistic speech has seeped into the daily vocabularies of many, suggesting the toxic, anti-woman values that have long inspired such rhetoric are once again calcifying into a widespread and serious problem.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Shops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shops. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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