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And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists.—John Werner, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026 Frank Cady played Sam Drucker, a shopkeeper who was a regular on both Green Acres and Petticoat Junction.—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 25 Jan. 2026 On January 8th, the twelfth day of mass protests in Iran, which began when shopkeepers, responding to runaway inflation, closed Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, the Iranian government shut down public access to the internet, further shrouding an already largely closed society.—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026 Iranian shopkeeper Erfan Soltani is seen in an undated photo posted on his Facebook account.—Tucker Reals, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shopkeeper