shepherd
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For a moment, they saw what appeared to be Lang, the beloved rescue shepherd mix they had had for nearly 13 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
These days he’s a religious gent and a shepherd to drifting youth, a golf addict, sober as a mullah, and insists his critics have always taken him far too seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
"It was very difficult," says their father, Bajash Ali Sagir Hassan, a softly spoken shepherd.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The demonstration had been called by farmers and shepherd groups.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
He believed that that damned canoe had given him the right to serve as shepherd and savior.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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One time a married couple who were staying for a week brought their two big German shepherds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Romanian shepherds also protested in front of the government earlier this year at the end of July.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Streaming series creator Jon Favreau shepherds his hit into an enjoyable if inessential summer popcorn movie loaded with the creatures you’re looking for.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Back in al-Mughayyir, settlers have already pushed Bedouin shepherds off their land nearby.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Other guards occasionally walked by with their German shepherds, but the night was otherwise uneventful.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Ms. Hazrat points out that the punctuation of William Shakespeare’s plays seem not to have come from the Bard himself but from the editors, copyreaders, typesetters and publishers who shepherded his manuscripts into finished form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After Mark Carney settled markets with explicit forward guidance and successfully shepherded Canada through the global financial crisis in 2008, his successor as central bank governor changed course.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
He also shepherded his young UAE-Team Emirates-XRG team-mate Isaac del Toro across the line on more than one occasion during this year's race when his own job was done.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
As a producer, Davis notched five Grammy Awards, two with Santana, one with Clarkson and one with Jennifer Hudson, but shepherded several nominations and wins for artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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But we may be starting a new era, according to Rick Castellano, a vice president at Sallie Mae, who has been shepherding the company’s data collection since 2014.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Thanking Clive Davis for transforming music, and on a very personal note, for believing in me, shepherding my efforts and a half century of your love and support."
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Wang appeared as usual at last week’s city council meeting, shepherding along discussions on street paving, the upcoming budget and a potential e-bike ordinance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Ternus is best known for shepherding the almost seamless transition of Mac computers from Intel’s chips to the company’s own Apple Silicon.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Hermione had darted ahead to fulfill her prefect’s duty of shepherding the first years, but Ron remained with Harry.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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