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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrugged
Verb
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Fiona came back in, asked a few more questions, seemed satisfied, and nodded her approval.—
Tom Piazza
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025 -
At the Kering dinner, Evangelista nodded to her former look without actually cutting her hair.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Indeed, the personalities of Chesley’s siblings — her surviving twin sister Chatham, and twin boys Chance and Cheston, who all turned three on July 28 — have flourished.—
Jeff Truesdell,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the mockumentary format that The Office popularized has flourished in a host of other series, which did not go unnoticed among the show’s producers.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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When people violate the rules, the policy instructs the officer to first work to educate the rider to make sure they’re informed, rather than step right to enforcement.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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Berry’s approach is informed very much by her own experiences coming up in the rough and tumble of investment banking.—
WWD Staff,
Footwear News,
8 Sep. 2025
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Their boys were well acquainted with the Bananas from social media and had acquired Bananas gear long before the game.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Here’s an artist who, across a two-decade period, has become intimately acquainted with the entertainment industry’s countless mutations, finally abiding by his own rules.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The canyon between Laura and the couple remains vast after Laura told Cherry in Episode 3 that Daniel died after his rock-climbing accident just to get Cherry out of their lives.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, a law enforcement source later told The New York Times that the findings, from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms report, had not been verified by the agency’s analysts and could have been misinterpreted.—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Dillon is currently in the second year of his most lucrative contract to date — a three-year deal with a cap hit of $4 million signed with the New Jersey Devils on July 1, 2024.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Fulton, who signed a two-year, $20-million free-agent deal this offseason, could potentially solve a lot of problems once coaches can trust him.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Asthma is not always classified strictly as an allergic disease, but many cases are allergy related, and such cases are becoming more common worldwide.—
Rhonda Conner-Warren,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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Blood related or not, Eid wants his workers to all feel like family.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Shrugged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrugged. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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