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The roof gave way under the weight of the crowd, after the shopkeeper asked some of more than 100 women to move onto the roof while others remained inside the shop, rescuer Ashiq Mahmood said.—ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026 Protests broke out first in Tehran’s bazaars, as merchants and shopkeepers took to the streets in anger.—Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2026 The speech invoked a Václav Havel essay about the hollowness of Communist ideology, embodied by the revolutionary slogans in shopkeepers’ windows that nobody actually believed.—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026 On my most recent trip, the stalls’ shopkeepers—a new mother and an older woman sitting under an umbrella in the beating sun—were happy to discuss the migrant problem.—Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shopkeeper