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noun

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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Recent Examples of shepherding
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
Newmark may have a reputation for shepherding big-ticket sales to completion. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Writer and executive producer Wauters has spent nearly two decades shepherding the project to the screen. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026 After a monumental season of shepherding drag kings into the pop culture consciousness, Revry’s King of Drag is back for season 2 — and Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive reveal of the new royal court competing for the throne. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Aug. 2026 As for the wisdom of shepherding the Sun out of Connecticut, the traditionally enthusiastic market for women’s basketball, to Houston, where a championship franchise failed to take hold in the league’s early days, well, time will tell. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026 Warken takes his place at the chancellery after shepherding the first of the government’s reforms, meant to curb rising costs in the German health insurance system, through parliament earlier this month. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 Of course, shepherding a smooth labor transition is in Silicon Valley’s self-interest. — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026 For Lind, the endeavor was less about being a scream queen and more about shepherding a production. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026 The 61-year-old writer/director revisits his script’s indelible opening lines at the start of the trailer, effectively shepherding in a new age of wonder and uncertainty. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherding
  1. management
  2. guiding
  3. steering
  4. leadership
  5. administration
  6. running
  7. piloting
  8. governance
Noun
  • Another win was with a European car maker that replaced its next-gen Endpoint Detection and Response, legacy SIEM, and legacy vulnerability management product with an eight-figure net-new Falcon Flex.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Florida is launching a new initiative to encourage more students to choose careers in emergency management, which the governor announced a week after a shakeup in leadership at the state’s Department of Emergency Management.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of management
Verb
  • However, the company is now guiding to full-year constant-currency revenue growth of 11%, down from a previous range of 10% to 11%.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • That spirit is the guiding force of the Together, Together Tour, which Styles acknowledged with praise for his loving fans.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of guiding
Noun
  • Where the Cayenne’s steering is calibrated so that the road nudges the driver, Bentley’s elbows back at those perturbances.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Issues affecting a car's brakes, steering, or tires should be addressed immediately for safety.
    — Michael Kurko, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of steering
Noun
  • The administration’s hope is that eventually the Iranian leadership will capitulate and compromise.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Under his leadership, CME transformed from a floor-trading exchange into a global derivatives giant.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of leadership
Noun
  • Russian strikes in the Kyiv region damaged 14 warehouses, 16 private houses, three apartment buildings and 16 vehicles, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said Friday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The ruling marks a victory for Anthropic in its monthslong legal battle against the administration over its push to impose guardrails on its powerful AI model Claude, which is used by the military.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of administration
Noun
  • The defense was organized and rebounded well from some early breakdowns on stretch running plays, and Petrino’s offense doesn’t look like the mess Freddie Kitchens’ group was last year.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • And then the senior running back went out and did something about it.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of running
Noun
  • Each of SkyFall’s Shrike drones equipped with such capability costs about $2,000, compared to the $400 Ukrainian drones that rely only on manual piloting, Meier wrote in a blog post.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Human-swarm teaming attempts to solve that problem by shifting operators from direct piloting toward higher-level mission management.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
Definition of piloting
Noun
  • Ever since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when faced with a trade-off between greater control and more effective governance, the Kremlin has consistently chosen greater control.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The next chief executive will need to accelerate growth, improve deposit mobilization and returns, and rebuild confidence around governance and senior-management stability, global brokerage Nomura said in a report on Sunday.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of governance

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“Shepherding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherding. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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