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shop

[shop] / ʃɒp /


VERB
look for merchandise to buy
Synonyms
Antonyms
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Canadian visits to Maine plunged 43 percent in the tariffs' first year, depressing shop sales and tax revenue, he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

From Facebook groups dedicated to swapping outfits to charity shop bargains and creative upcycling projects, families are finding ways to embrace the spooky season without frightening their finances.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

And for what it’s worth, Instacart has, in fact, tried teaching people how to grocery shop.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Instead, any charge could rest on allegations that he planned to shop what he allegedly collected to the Saudis at a later date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

In silence he collected the few tools he had brought with him and in silence left the shop.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Charity shops have also noticed increased demand for Halloween outfits.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

In Marseille, where more than 300 shops were looted, authorities initially banned all demonstrations before allowing a union-led march along a designated route.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

In Paris, where many shops had boarded up windows to prevent looting, and the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay museums shut for the day, the main demonstration passed off largely peacefully.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The cookie shops have a rotating menu of cookies with elaborate toppings, sometimes offering bizarre flavors such as everything bagel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

They passed stalls, small shops, clusters of children playing on the street.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Collins shopped with his grandmother Kathy Red Elk for a suit Walters could wear to court.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Space NK members can receive a free set of three beauty minis, provided they have shopped with the retailer during the previous year.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

And while Warner Bros. quietly allowed the movie to be shopped to different studios, no one met their price.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

But steep price hikes in recent years have created millions of “orphaned” luxury consumers who formerly shopped at Louis Vuitton or Gucci and can no longer afford to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

While Ji-yong and Ji-yun were in school during the day, I shopped and sewed and worried.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

I hadn’t grown up in a household where paying someone else to do the grocery shopping was a particularly imaginable expense.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

For those who said costs were up, the most common reasons were the price of food shopping, fuel and energy bills.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The bar at Lidl’s new store in Northern Ireland is more than a marketing stunt, even if it has seating that resembles shopping carts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

In Paris, authorities have banned a yellow vest march that would have passed through Place de la République and some of the capital’s main shopping boulevards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

At first he refused to help me until I agreed to ask my grandma to get him a shopping spree at some fancy clothing store in Uhuru.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas


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