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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
Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
The World Cup has created a business boom in Boston, as shops and stores are packed with international tourists.
—Paul Burton, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Over the next few days, innumerable shops, houses and places of worship are reduced to ashes, and hundreds of people, Hindu and Muslim, are killed.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Think wooden boardwalks, ice cream shops, amusement parks, and miles of gorgeous shoreline.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
This marks Pizza Factory’s fifth location in the Sacramento area, with pizza shops in Rocklin, Loomis, Auburn and Cameron Park, according to its website.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Dick's Sporting Goods, the sporting goods retailer, announced a partnership to expand Lids shops to 100 Dick's stores nationwide, the company said in a press release on Monday.
—Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 15 June 2026
Easily walkable, museums, inns, bed & breakfasts, restaurants, a thriving farmers market and a variety of shops are all located in the half-square-mile historic district.
—Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
With a home base in SoHo– an ever-evolving art-world with galleries, studios, and museums, hip metropolitan green spaces such as the High Line, Washington and Union Squares, and designer shops and hubs are all at your fingertips.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
Noun
Outside a row of shops in Ashton-in-Makerfield town center, anti-Reform and pro-Labour campaigners stop weary residents to talk politics.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
The World Cup has created a business boom in Boston, as shops and stores are packed with international tourists.
—Paul Burton, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Over the next few days, innumerable shops, houses and places of worship are reduced to ashes, and hundreds of people, Hindu and Muslim, are killed.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Think wooden boardwalks, ice cream shops, amusement parks, and miles of gorgeous shoreline.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
This marks Pizza Factory’s fifth location in the Sacramento area, with pizza shops in Rocklin, Loomis, Auburn and Cameron Park, according to its website.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Dick's Sporting Goods, the sporting goods retailer, announced a partnership to expand Lids shops to 100 Dick's stores nationwide, the company said in a press release on Monday.
—Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 15 June 2026
Easily walkable, museums, inns, bed & breakfasts, restaurants, a thriving farmers market and a variety of shops are all located in the half-square-mile historic district.
—Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
With a home base in SoHo– an ever-evolving art-world with galleries, studios, and museums, hip metropolitan green spaces such as the High Line, Washington and Union Squares, and designer shops and hubs are all at your fingertips.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops
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To ensure that bots act as instructed, Mastercard’s new protocol stores permissions that humans grant their AI agents onto a blockchain.—
Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
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Rather than selling online courses or coaching programs, the company creates fully operational online stores for clients and integrates automation systems that help manage much of the day-to-day work behind the scenes.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Depicting newsrooms, farms, factories and street life, the Depression‑era scenes transform the tower into a time capsule of California during the Great Depression.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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For many years, Spielberg had planned a film adaptation of Thomas Kenneally’s 1982 historical novel, Schindler’s Ark, about a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust by keeping them working in his factories.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
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It is also being distributed internationally and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and three Greenlandic dialects.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
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Sperm whales communicate using group-specific dialects orders of magnitude older than Sanskrit.—
Ryan Huling,
Time,
7 May 2026
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The number of back-and-forth turns in an interview was one of the strongest predictors of getting an offer.—
Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
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Known for projects like Transparent and C’mon C’mon, Hoffmann is coming off turns in Netflix’s thriller series Eric, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, and 20th’s Springsteen biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere, opposite Jeremy Allen White.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 June 2026
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Lumber mills are major sources of combustible dust.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
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In a region that has only experienced subtraction since the mills started closing in 1977, addition is a welcome and sometimes foreign concept, especially in the form of additional investment.—
Salena Zito,
The Washington Examiner,
14 June 2026
Noun
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Were those actual equestrian terminologies and different play-by-plays?—
Anaja I. Smith,
HollywoodReporter,
21 July 2025
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To be useful for clinicians at the point of care, these tools should also sort and filter data and create structured, discrete information that is mapped to standard terminologies, value sets and reporting formats.—
David Lareau,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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The bio-pool, which sits alongside some of the villas, is treated solely with aquatic plants, excluding the use of chemicals.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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The company estimates that commercial plants using its technology would cost roughly one-fifth as much as comparable facilities currently being developed in Europe.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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But more variations of Austronesian languages have been identified in Taiwan, accompanied with more intricate grammatical structures and expansive vocabularies, which has provided insights for linguists.—
Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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If things seemed a little pricey at the concession stands, there were some bonding moments that fans of all languages could appreciate — especially those familiar with American football.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
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“Shops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shops. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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