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to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed
shepherding her through the procedure of taking out a loan
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Recent Examples of shepherded
Not everything was advisable in the budget this group shepherded against the wishes of Johnson, who allowed the tax-and-spending plan to become law without his signature.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
Mara, 71, has shepherded the franchise originally founded by his grandfather, Tim, to two of its four Super Bowls.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
All around me, tour guides shepherded groups of them through the various exhibits.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
The coup de grâce is a wagon packed with flaming barrels, which is shepherded down a hill and into the front of the Van Ness manor, setting it ablaze and offering a defiant victory for the underdogs.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
During his tenure with the company, Carr has shepherded more than $9B in advertising sales to top companies such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, McDonald’s, and Apple.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2025
Having shepherded the first movie, the two Disney vets know the world — with its four central quadrants (Savanna Central, Sahara Square, the Rainforest District and Tundratown) and many uncharted corners — better than anyone.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025
The city of San Diego has approved a Phase 1 renovation plan shepherded by the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary Club to replace walls and doors in the sleeping areas, along with other improvements.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2025
To get around California’s constitutional requirement that legislative and congressional lines get drawn by an independent commission every 10 years, the governor shepherded the ballot proposition through the legislature and in front of voters for a stamp of approval.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherded
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Several Venezuela residents told TIME that the fear of what might be discovered on their phone at a checkpoint has guided their behavior in the days since Maduro's ouster.—
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Since launch, mission teams have guided the observatory steadily toward L1.—
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Newsom has long been a favorite of affluent donors, drawing support from a set of elite San Francisco families — including branches of the Getty, Pritzker, and Fisher fortunes — who have collectively steered tens of millions of dollars to his campaigns over more than two decades.—
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In turn, those officers steered ships to the Southeast Asian ports controlled by Francis and his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.—
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Rheinmetall revealed that the technology will reduce the production costs of green hydrogen through lower investment in the overall system, accompanied by a doubling of power density or an improvement in efficiency of over 10%.—
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Each president's portrait is accompanied by a placard describing events during their time in office, including Clinton's impeachment.—
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Minter is a prominent candidate, since he's coached in Baltimore fairly recently.—
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Rizzi and Joseph coached together with the Dolphins.—
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Then, in August 2014, her Modern Family costar Julie Bowen intervened and helped Hyland end her relationship, which, per Hyland's restraining order filing, allegedly led Prokop to threaten to kill her dog and burn down her house.—
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Park led a presentation Friday morning in the Council Chamber during the City Council’s first session of the new year following a three-week recess.—
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Cellphone data showed Fuentes was at the crash site, immediately went home and then returned in a different car within 20 minutes, the affidavit said.—
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Videos of the shooting in Minnesota showed federal agents approaching Good’s SUV stopped in the middle of a neighborhood street.—
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“Shepherded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherded. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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