set up shop
Example Sentences
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Such entrepreneurial packaging serves as a Trojan horse for scammers wanting to set up shop without drawing unwanted attention – and allows them to perpetrate their fraud more effectively.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The civil war has seeded instability across Myanmar, creating fertile ground for organised crime groups running transnational scam operations to set up shop in fortified compounds, according to monitors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Many of these dorm-room disrupters have set up shop in newly leased properties across San Francisco this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
In 2020, India's National Education Policy announced that foreign universities would be allowed in the country and rules were notified in 2023, creating a legal mechanism for these institutions to set up shop.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
