storekeeper
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The mood was similar on the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs - a stronghold of Hezbollah, also known as Dahieh - with a storekeeper expressing doubts about the agreement.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
According to the investigation, a Malaysian man served as storekeeper and assistant chemist, with two other locals acting as his trusted aides.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
Brown is a storekeeper for the city of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
The only child of Pieter Westra, a jewelry merchant, and Hendrika van Doorn, a storekeeper, she recalled a lonely childhood in which she learned to amuse herself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
The storekeeper helped Stuart up onto the counter and found some letter paper for him—small paper, marked with the initial “L.”
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
According to the Etemad newspaper, one trader who did not give his name, complained that officials had offered no support to storekeepers battling soaring import costs.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
She pressured storekeepers to donate additional groceries for the needy, lest she step onto the street and publicly denounce them as “thieving gougers of widows and orphans.”
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
And these workers in turn needed schoolteachers, storekeepers and doctors.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
Similar barter arrangements with rural craftsmen and storekeepers limited outside trade, so New Englanders sold no more than 25 percent of what they grew outside the region.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But my storefront fainting spells became so frequent that storekeepers —for fear of going broke, I suppose—no longer gave me anything.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
