shape
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“The question going forward is whether he, or someone else, can shape that raw emotion into a movement.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
‘Squeezing more life out of every dollar’: How inflation is forcing a new reality on American families and amplifying the economy’s ‘K shape’
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Lobbying is part of the legislative process and can help shape a law.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Thankfully, the dock is in better shape than the drive-in.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Vocabulary lists containing shape
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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