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shrugged

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past tense of shrug

as in nodded

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The costume nodded to the cover of D4vd’s first EP, Petals to Thorns, and helped Alvarez win a $1,000 fan prize.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Birdie nodded, though the answer was more complicated than a simple yes.

— Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026

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That’s particularly true in places like Colorado and other states where the Canada goose population has flourished since being reintroduced starting in the 1960s.

— Mark Vrtiska, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Many New Yorkers know the region's historic Borscht Belt, a network of Jewish resorts that flourished during the 20th century.

— Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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Hence privy to means privately informed, while privy for a toilet comes from the idea of a private place.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
One student has described the moment a fellow pupil ran into their classroom and informed them that a teacher had been shot, during Friday’s deadly shooting.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

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As geopolitics, inflation and new tariffs change the global business landscape every day, CFOs need to become much better acquainted with their supply chains.

— Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Some of these thinkers were good friends; a few were hardly acquainted.

— Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

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Senior local official Dagnachew Azbite told the BBC that seven people had been found injured, with five of the victims sustaining serious injuries.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Secret Service Director Sean Curran told reporters that the agency had more than 10,000 investigations into threats against people the agency has been assigned to protect.

— Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026

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The measure also cleared the state Senate and will be signed by Moore on Wednesday, and then it can be placed on the ballot.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2026
The agreement comes after Bangladesh signed an economic partnership agreement with Japan in February, its first bilateral free trade deal.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026

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Founded in Israel, the company positions itself around space-resilient computing systems, including onboard processing, storage and communications-related capabilities.

— Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
While drug overdose deaths have dropped in recent years, alcohol- and drug-related disorders still kill more than 250,000 people every year.

— Brian Mann, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

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