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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
For too long, the thinking goes, Europe has relied on the United States to shoulder the costs of its own defense.
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Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
Jokić has been Denver's best, and by far its most consistent, player this season, and has had to shoulder more responsibility when teammates have gone down with injuries, or simply struggled.
—Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
She’d been raised on the basketball court in that kind of pressure cooker, shouldering whatever burden was asked of her otherworldly talent.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Europe must ‘own’ conflict Trump’s comments come as Ukraine’s European allies are likely to come under pressure this week to shoulder more of the burden for supporting Kyiv, going forward.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
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Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
Jokić has been Denver's best, and by far its most consistent, player this season, and has had to shoulder more responsibility when teammates have gone down with injuries, or simply struggled.
—Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
She’d been raised on the basketball court in that kind of pressure cooker, shouldering whatever burden was asked of her otherworldly talent.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Europe must ‘own’ conflict Trump’s comments come as Ukraine’s European allies are likely to come under pressure this week to shoulder more of the burden for supporting Kyiv, going forward.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
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On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Hamas had refused to accept a proposal from Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, which would extend the ceasefire to April 20, through both the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Passover.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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Israel cut off all aid and other supplies to Gaza on Sunday to pressure Hamas to accept a new proposal to extend the first phase of the cease-fire.—
Mohammad Jahjouh,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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Despite the trifecta, Trump is pushing an expansive view of executive power that questions the role of Congress and the courts to serve as a check over federal agencies.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2025
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Despite its passage the Legislature has pushed back on implementing the law, pointing instead to routine audits of their work conducted by outside agencies and made public via the state’s website and establishing a committee to consider the Auditor’s requests of them.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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The regulatory process in California could take up to a year, assuming that Tesla’s technology proves to be safe, Smith said.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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So until another shoe drops — assuming there will be another shoe — this deal feels somewhat incomplete for the Penguins.—
Shayna Goldman,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and elbow both Schaeuble and Merz aside on her rise to become chancellor.—
Thomas Escritt,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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Now in its second year, Ojai Food + Wine, set for the weekend of March 13–16, is betting that luxury tastes better without elbowing through an inebriated crowd for a few truffle shavings.—
David Hochman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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He was born in Moscow to a minor official in 1962, nine years after the death of Joseph Stalin, from whose murderous purges the Russian intelligentsia was slowly recovering.—
James Verini,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2025
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The children were all born with a form of severe retinal dystrophy called LCA4, leaving them with only a limited ability to perceive light.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
1 Mar. 2025
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The international order forged after World War II is imploding, squeezed on all sides by the return of strongmen, nationalism and spheres of influence — with President Trump leading the charge.—
Zachary Basu,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Goldman Sachs previously estimated that these tariffs could increase inflation by 1 percent while squeezing U.S. company profits and risking retaliatory measures from other nations.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Like many other state environmental protection agencies, Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection receives money appropriated by Congress and uses these funds for its own conservation projects and for those undertaken by land trusts and other organizations via grants.—
Shelley Harms,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new leadership on Thursday dismissed at least four enforcement lawsuits undertaken by the previous administration’s director.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Shoulder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoulder. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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