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shepherd

[shep-erd] / ˈʃɛp ərd /


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The demonstration had been called by farmers and shepherd groups.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Chico, his German shepherd, was sent to a foster family in March and permanently rehomed last month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Before Jessie's dad died, he was renting fields out to a local shepherd, which is still bringing in income now.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Tolomeo, the deposed king of Egypt, is hiding out on the island of Cyprus disguised as a shepherd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Roy saw a big pointy«eared dog, probably a German shepherd, bound off somebody’s porch and go for the boy.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Romanian shepherds also protested in front of the government earlier this year at the end of July.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Two German shepherds on a loose leash, maybe off leash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Jersey brothers and shepherds Josh and Ben Voak, who work with the project, said it had saved them hours of manual labour and opened up new areas for flocks to graze.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

In Spain, fritter-like buñuelos showed up with the Moors, and by some reports, churros were a Chinese idea that was later dragged through molten chocolate by hungry Madrileños or wandering shepherds or both.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

“I want to hear more about the shepherds dancing in the Easter egg,” Theodora said.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

After Mark Carney settled markets with explicit forward guidance and successfully shepherded Canada through the global financial crisis in 2008, his successor as central bank governor changed course.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

He spent about three minutes firing questions at the ship's second officer, who was helming the vessel, before he was shepherded back to the public areas.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

One speaker after another followed Erika’s lead, preaching the tenets of Christian womanhood to a congregation eager to be shepherded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Instead, he said, he was shepherded into a glass office where a thin man in a baggy suit named Alex told him to sign three packets of documents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Navy, meanwhile, has been eating into Iran’s control of the strait by steadily shepherding tankers through the waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

But we may be starting a new era, according to Rick Castellano, a vice president at Sallie Mae, who has been shepherding the company’s data collection since 2014.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Wang appeared as usual at last week’s city council meeting, shepherding along discussions on street paving, the upcoming budget and a potential e-bike ordinance.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

Ternus is best known for shepherding the almost seamless transition of Mac computers from Intel’s chips to the company’s own Apple Silicon.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Other teachers and parents kept calling out to Ms. Morales, but she kept shepherding the kids toward the parking lot, even as she stayed a few steps back from them.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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