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as in stores
also shoppes
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers
the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state
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as in factories
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods
a machine shop
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as in dialects
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop
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Recent Examples of shops
Jake Angelo, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
The championship is part of the area's World Snow Celebration, a series of events that include a collectible pin crawl featuring local shops, live music, an indoor market, and a 5K run.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 28 Apr. 2026
The eight-story vertical indoor mall will be replaced by a three-story retail center with small shops, flagship stores and a collection of new restaurants, according to a statement by its owner.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
The race route took runners through the theme park, past dormant rides and shops, with staff offering encouragement and snacks.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Burbank approved a temporary moratorium on new gun dealers in 2022 after concerns emerged about the concentration of shops there following that year’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Santa Fe Dry Goods — This Santa Fe institution and its sibling shops, Wild Life and Workshop, go heavy on the Japanese and Belgian sides of things, balancing craftsmanship and wearability with a little weirdness.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
Urban planners say tall towers should include street-level shops and restaurants, and be built near transit hubs to reduce traffic congestion.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
Downtown Soufrière has a weekly outdoor farmers market, local artisan shops, and daily boat excursions.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
But Slok attributes this to young people starting companies, not to a boom in entry-level associate hiring at law firms or Big Four accounting shops.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
The championship is part of the area's World Snow Celebration, a series of events that include a collectible pin crawl featuring local shops, live music, an indoor market, and a 5K run.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 28 Apr. 2026
The eight-story vertical indoor mall will be replaced by a three-story retail center with small shops, flagship stores and a collection of new restaurants, according to a statement by its owner.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
The race route took runners through the theme park, past dormant rides and shops, with staff offering encouragement and snacks.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Burbank approved a temporary moratorium on new gun dealers in 2022 after concerns emerged about the concentration of shops there following that year’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Santa Fe Dry Goods — This Santa Fe institution and its sibling shops, Wild Life and Workshop, go heavy on the Japanese and Belgian sides of things, balancing craftsmanship and wearability with a little weirdness.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
Urban planners say tall towers should include street-level shops and restaurants, and be built near transit hubs to reduce traffic congestion.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
Downtown Soufrière has a weekly outdoor farmers market, local artisan shops, and daily boat excursions.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops
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Starting in April, the most vulnerable populations, such as children and older adults, could be most affected because the government plans to cut or eliminate the few subsidized food items that were sold in stores through the ration booklets.—
Sarah Moreno
Updated April 29,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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HomeGoods stores typically receive shipments several times a week, and many locations stock shelves overnight or early in the morning.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Apr. 2026
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Just 261 factories—about one-third of those assessed—have a relationship that goes back less than three years.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
29 Apr. 2026
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This is felt beyond just factories.—
Alex Durante,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The small cadre of community radio stations in coastal Bangladesh, using local dialects, provide an early-warning system against tsunamis, flooding, and cyclones.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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The British colonial name of New Cut was different from other nearby creeks—Wadmalaw, Bohicket, Leadenwah, Stono—all named in Indigenous dialects.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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Cera explained the museum would have interactive exhibits with artifacts from various steel mills in the area.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Fatla credits all that success to the city's blue-collar work ethic, forged in its steel mills since the 19th century.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2026
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Among the plants that are exempt are many of the midwestern and mid-Atlantic plants directly upwind from Connecticut, as well as several plants that are the most polluting plants in the country.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
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And ComEd benefited enormously from the arrangement, the opinion noted, getting Madigan’s help in passing key legislation granting a formula rate, investing in electric grid infrastructure and rescuing two underperforming nuclear power plants owned by the utility’s parent company.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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The Final Jeopardy question, which fell under the world languages category, asked for the alphabetically first and last of South Africa's 12 official languages.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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When there is no war on, the shelter functions as a community center, complete with a Filipino church, a refugee health clinic, and retailers catering to customers in more than a dozen languages.—
Theia Chatelle,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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The gallery would dedicate its third exhibition to Smith, presenting two monumental works by the artist made in the mid-1960s and early ’70s.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Those are real-life examples of recent scams plaguing the publishing industry that target authors’ wallets and original works.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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In the October 2025 study that followed families over time, children who spent more time with digital media at age 2 tended to have smaller vocabularies at age 3, regardless of the child’s temperament or the caregiver’s personality traits.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Teams were asked to learn new interfaces, adopt new vocabularies, and take responsibility for outputs whose behavior remained probabilistic rather than deterministic.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Shops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shops. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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