closed shop

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Noun
  • What is the point of keeping La Jolla in its fold if the city cannot maintain it?
    Ted Levis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • In shapes designed to cover expression lines, frown lines, crow’s feet, and nasolabial folds, the patches have been clinically proven to reduce the appearance of wrinkles between the brows.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One such feature is the dark lunar maria (Latin for 'seas'), formed when molten lava flooded a network of impact basins that scarred the moon's surface billions of years ago.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 May 2025
  • Authorities had uncovered a nationwide network of fixers who conspired to influence hundreds of college basketball games over a five-year period.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • About one-third of Americans still believed the election was stolen from Trump in Sept. 2023 and a majority of the believers are Republican, according to a survey of about 2,500 adults from the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization Public Religion Research Institute.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • The overhaul prompted swift bipartisan backlash from lawmakers and Escambia County locals, who raised concerns over some of the appointees’ ties to national right-wing organizations and lack of familiarity with the community.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the 20th century, the relationship between colleges and the state was a messy one.
    Time, Time, 20 May 2025
  • At that campus, teaching will take place through three colleges, and would grow to host 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
    Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The majority of them belong to the it-girl clique of Tiffany Falconer (Fina Strazza), the popular girl with a penchant for bullying Lori about her mother's reputation.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 May 2025
  • Following in the footsteps of Brooklyn crew the Troopers and Upper West Side clique SweepersENT, the new sound is darker than the party drill wave of the last few years.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • In my experience as an actor and as a singer, the thing that has been most useful for me on Broadway, on film sets, and certainly in my concert career is my experience in the small room.
    Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
  • Chelsea complete set: Blues stroll to win in Conference League despite defence changes From the outset, the Conference League presented Chelsea with no insurmountable hurdles.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • As boss Richie Stevenson looks to pin blame, patriarch Conrad Harrigan gathers his clan with a plan.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • It’s been three years, but our favorite sleuthing goth teenager Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is finally back, as is the rest of her clan.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Modules are premade individually and then connected with outdoor walkways that all sit on a pin foundation with a ring beam producing walkways and decks as in between space.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Now, a ring sits four wins away after Oklahoma City thundered past the Timberwolves in a decisive 124-94 Game 5 win at home last night.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 29 May 2025
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“Closed shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closed%20shop. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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