shoulder to shoulder
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In the halcyon days of the televangelists, when Jim Bakker stood shoulder to shoulder with fire and brimstone preachers such as Jerry Farwell, Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart, the collection plate always seemed bottomless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"It is precisely because France stands shoulder to shoulder with the Iranian people, supporting their artists, scientists and researchers, that two French diplomats were scandalously and deliberately attacked on 19 July," Barrot said on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Tristan Essex is standing on the steps of Hull Crown Court, shoulder to shoulder with several others whose lives have been devastated by disgraced funeral director Robert Bush.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
But governments answer, eventually, to publics—and a public that has stood shoulder to shoulder with the people it was taught to fear is harder to march to war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The northern side of 141st Street was buffered by brownstones standing shoulder to shoulder, as if marching in formation.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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