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as in to accept
to take to or upon oneself
agreed to shoulder the burden of caring for their elderly father
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Recent Examples of shoulder
Many single mothers shoulder the financial responsibility of raising children while also being the primary caretakers, a dynamic that affects their labor market participation and income, according to a recent analysis by the Center for American Progress.
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Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping dead bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Others volunteer to water plants, write a weekly newsletter, launder aprons, check on members who haven’t shown up in a while, and shoulder other tasks needed to keep the clubhouse humming.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
Others shouldered the task of wrapping dead bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Others volunteer to water plants, write a weekly newsletter, launder aprons, check on members who haven’t shown up in a while, and shoulder other tasks needed to keep the clubhouse humming.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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The 159-year-old French retailer will now accept cryptocurrencies through a partnership with Binance Pay and Lyzi.Rhonda Richford, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
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When the race for president is over every four years in the U.S., one candidate delivers a victory speech while the other, typically, accepts defeat in a concession speech.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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Winds push warm water from the eastern Pacific toward Asia, warming surface temperatures in the western Pacific.Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Moscow's bigger army is slowly pushing Ukraine's forces backward in the eastern Donetsk region, while Ukrainian civilians are being maimed and killed by Russian drones and missiles often fired from inside Russia.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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But as the two creatives note, maybe there’s a bit of profiling going on if Star Wars fans instantly assumed that Neel and Max Rebo share alien DNA.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 22 Nov. 2024
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But, the recent unseating of Gascón by Nathan Hochman in the Nov. 5 election could throw a wrench in this second possible avenue of relief for the brothers, as the hearing to consider the resentencing is scheduled for Dec. 11, days after Hochman will assume power.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement After elbowing their way out of the state’s first competitive Senate primary in a generation, Schiff and Garvey have faced off in a race that hasn’t been much of one at all.Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Unlike Frieze’s reconfigured layout, which elbowed the mega-galleries to the back of the tent and gave the small and midsize operations more exposure at the front, the big galleries are given the limelight in Paris.George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Even though plenty of us were born in the ’70s or survived them, a decade has no constituency, no one to be offended.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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The center also found that 1 in 40 Native American and Alaska Native babies born in the region in 2022 had a syphilis infection.Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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The investigation reveals a dismal picture of a company with a sales culture that depends on squeezing infirm and elderly patients and the government for every penny.Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
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Often the rookie spends several minutes adjusting their chair, finding the right eye relief, and remembering their shooting form before ever squeezing the trigger for that first dry fire.Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2024
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The Royal Commission of Inquiry was the longest and most complex inquiry undertaken by New Zealand.Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, the campaign of Green Party candidate Jill Stein requested a recount that was fully undertaken in Wisconsin, and requested one in Michigan (which was halted) and Pennsylvania (which was denied).Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Shoulder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoulder. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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