rub shoulders with
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Marginal players probably wanted to rub shoulders with Oil Ministry bigwigs who have discretionary power over rights to explore and exploit oil blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Europe's biggest tech trade fair Vivatech opens Wednesday in Paris for a 10th-anniversary edition where enthusiasm for generative AI will rub shoulders with anxiety about the continent's technological dependence.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Former USA goalkeeper Tony Meola is one pundit who has suggested they are now on their way to being able to rub shoulders with football's elite.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
She was brashly optimistic in what she calls “the good old days,” thrilled to rub shoulders with Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and Liza Minnelli at Halston’s fabled glass-and-steel Upper East Side townhouse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
You may have all the benefit, if there be such, of the treason, and yet never rub shoulders with the traitor.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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