shepherd
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Unless you are at the level of wealth where you’re hiring a full-time money manager to shepherd your family foundation, you should retain control over your finances.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
If the customer wanted cool, Jacobs would be their shepherd, skipping hand-in-hand with them into the future with abandon.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
Michaels hired Longman to shepherd the adaptation because of his comedy experience “in both languages,” Longman said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
“He’s a shepherd that got up with the sun and watched his flock and tried to survive,” Donovan says.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Or consider the sentence from the Wikipedia entry on Oedipus: The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from the Laius household, who had been told to get rid of the child.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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