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shelf

noun as in jutting, flat area or piece

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Instead of heading right back to Chantel’s place, they make one more stop at a sunlit supermarket with spacious nooks and exposed brick walls, where the shelves offer gourmet canned tomatoes and luscious produce.

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They include a supermarket stocker who can’t afford to buy the groceries he puts on shelves, she said.

She’s livid, and Bravo frames the shot to show her on the far left of the screen with Stefani on the distant right, shelves full of black and white knickknacks dividing them.

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Waitrose has reversed its decision not to offer paid work to an autistic man after initially saying he had to stop stacking shelves at the store where he had volunteered for four years.

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Costumes for just the movie’s female protagonists hit shelves at retailer Spirit Halloween in late September.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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