shaper

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Recent Examples of shaper Surf legend Mike Diffenderfer, a renowned surfboard shaper who is now in the San Diego Surfing Hall of Fame, was among attendees at the exhibit’s grand opening. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026 Noem, who’d been willing to do virtually anything in the role to boost her standing, was a product of the White House agenda, never a shaper of it. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026 In digital technology policy, too, Turkey can make the leap from passive consumer to norm-shaper. Ekrem Imamoglu, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025 Instead, by moving first, African central banks and regulators could shape rules that reflect local realities, while signaling that Africa is not a passive taker of global digital finance standards but an active shaper. Gwera Kiwana, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025 The Huntington Beach resident, who is the son of Duke Aipa and grandson of legendary Hawaiian shaper Ben Aipa, was critically injured after being towed on his electric bike in California on the Saturday before his death. Skyler Caruso, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaper
Noun
  • But people who buy the off-brand Noguchi will quickly find the rice paper isn’t as warm, Pietrantoni, the lighting consultant, tells me.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Over months of reporting, Marcus spoke with dozens of clemency recipients, lawyers, historians, and the consultants offering clients their pardon expertise.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The others on board, including the boat operator, were transported to a hospital for treatment.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That reduces operator workload and speeds up operations.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In Arizona, that state's attorney general has accused smith of legally changing his name to hide his past in 2021.
    Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • When a government investigator arrives in a small town to find a reclusive smith, things get twisty fast in a tale of caged demons, revenge, grief, and loss.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lázaro is a retired industrial mechanic but was forced to start working at a small convenience store to make ends meet.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • My mechanic already replaced the computer, distributor cap, rotor, spark plugs, and wires.
    Hartford Courant, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Having been surpassed, as an athlete, by Alex Honnold, the new free soloist in the valley, Potter, then in his early forties, reimagined himself as a performance artist, of a kind.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Just about 60 years later, artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro—alongside a group of their students—brought one vision of feminist utopia into the real world.
    Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • This class, featuring insights from experts like Amy Cuddy and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, explores the concept of presence in communication and leadership, offering strategies to enhance executive presence, build confidence, and effectively manage performance anxiety for professional success.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But security experts say the name may be a flag of convenience rather than a coherent group, and its claims should be treated with caution.
    Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This new iteration was partly handled by Room40 label boss Lawrence English, who reconstructed the original master tapes and blended them with recent performances by Lockwood and Vanessa Tomlinson, who plays the gong.
    Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Leaders of the gardens have been undergoing a master planning effort for more than a year in an effort to accommodate visitation of the botanical garden doubling to more than 300,000 people annually over the past decade.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Van Bendegem, who would become a leading scholar on ultrafinitist logic, later addressed these concerns by considering a geometry in which a line or curve has width and is both finite and finitely divisible.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Ted Kaptchuk, an acupuncturist and leading scholar of the placebo effect, has described this phenomenon in detail.
    Hannah Kerman, STAT, 29 Apr. 2026

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“Shaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaper. Accessed 5 May. 2026.

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