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as in to accept
to take to or upon oneself
agreed to shoulder the burden of caring for their elderly father
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The second-round draft pick from Penn State was supposed to be another pass-catching option for Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars, a guy who could shoulder some of fellow tight end Evan Engram’s heavy workload.
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Mark Long, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
Shoppers could soon have to pay much higher prices for fruit and vegetables as farmers shoulder higher growing costs from the heat, a reversal of a trend seen over the past year with the cost of fruits and vegetables dropping by 1%, according to June Consumer Price Index data.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 30 July 2024
Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images file Drug manufacturers — not PBMs — should shoulder the blame for the rising costs patients pay, said Adam Kautzner, president of Express Scripts.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 23 July 2024
And importantly, Mercedes isn’t shouldering the whole cost of the $1 billion project itself; 50 percent will be covered by MN8 Energy, an offshoot of Goldman Sachs Asset Management focused on solar power and energy storage.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 17 July 2024
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Mark Long, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
Shoppers could soon have to pay much higher prices for fruit and vegetables as farmers shoulder higher growing costs from the heat, a reversal of a trend seen over the past year with the cost of fruits and vegetables dropping by 1%, according to June Consumer Price Index data.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 30 July 2024
Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images file Drug manufacturers — not PBMs — should shoulder the blame for the rising costs patients pay, said Adam Kautzner, president of Express Scripts.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 23 July 2024
And importantly, Mercedes isn’t shouldering the whole cost of the $1 billion project itself; 50 percent will be covered by MN8 Energy, an offshoot of Goldman Sachs Asset Management focused on solar power and energy storage.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 17 July 2024
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“Shoulder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoulder. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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