Thesaurus results for SHEPHERDING

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as in management

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verb

present participle of shepherd

as in guiding

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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Noun

Welcome to Wrexham, which follows Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s shepherding of Welsh club Wrexham AFC, has been a hit around the world for Disney+. —

Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 May 2026 Part of that shepherding includes helping filmmakers decipher the film incentive program, Mansoori said. —

Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026 Over the past few years, settlers have gradually blocked off access to the spring, which was vital to the nearby Palestinian shepherding community of Ras Ein al-Auja. —

Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026 Not to mention, there's likely plenty of human shepherding going on behind the scenes. —

Scott Harrell, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026 And as for putting a stop to commercial shepherding, that just isn’t something that is ever going to happen. —

Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 The 35-year-old, coming from Boston — where his shepherding of recent Red Sox drafts as assistant general manager helped stock much of the current roster — looked the part of a young, modern baseball executive, with his wife and four kids in tow. —

David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 While some of the lawyers spent as little as 20 minutes on the case, the legal shepherding of Saks Global clearly took over the lives of others. —

Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Verb

Over the next few weeks, Keith will work on a transition with his talented senior creative team, Todd Baynes and Antonia Covault, who have been shepherding these successes alongside Keith and our partners at 101 Studios. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 14 May 2026 Yanoff is one of the commercial brokers shepherding the move. —

Anne Kadet, Curbed, 12 May 2026 Wang appeared as usual at last week’s city council meeting, shepherding along discussions on street paving, the upcoming budget and a potential e-bike ordinance. —

Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026 Even Cynthia, production’s on-camera proxy, couldn’t do enough shepherding to salvage the beginning of the trip as half of the full-time cast members failed to step up to the plate. —

Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 4 May 2026 Disney did a good job of shepherding the family and their friends through back-door entrances to many attractions, the Sentinel reported back then. —

Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026 Bellerose believes Parker had been shepherding them toward that request all along. —

Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026 Cox headed the influenza team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 22 years, shepherding it from a branch of 14 people to a division of over 100. —

Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026 But at shepherding time—usually after tea (the evening meal) and always before dark—Dad would go around the fields checking the flock was fit and well. —

Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026

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After the modernising ethos of the Eyraud era, this — the thinking went — was a way of putting football back at the very heart of the club’s management structure.

— Tom Williams, New York Times, 17 May 2026
This lasted until 2023, when new management company Storey Hotel Management (who also run Nanuku Resort in Fiji and the Ameswell Hotel in California) took over, and the resort has maintained its elegance and quiet luxury.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026