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• v  lift onto one's shoulders
• v  push with the shoulders
  He shouldered his way into the crowd
• v  carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
• a  having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form
  stoop-shouldered
  broad-shouldered

• Vince Camden is 36, single, broad shouldered and thin, like a martini glass.
• Or the one-shouldered white cocktail number that she paired this summer in Mallorca with the chunky necklace? It wasn't that long ago that Letizia Ortiz, 37, tended to dress in the .
• With the 2009 finals in Moscow coming May 16, PTI takes a look at the years when controversy shouldered the singing out of the limelight .

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News & Articles

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• 'Texas' actress faces steep learning curve
  For her latest role in Palo Duro Canyon, actress Anna Saunders is thinking big. As in broad-shouldered. Saunders stars as Viola in the "Texas" company's production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." The comedy will be staged at 8:30 p.m.
  June 21, 2013 - Amarillo Globe-News
• Rodriguez owning up to baserunning gaffe
  Third-base coach Eddie Rodriguez shouldered the blame for the baserunning blunder that cost the Royals dearly in the ninth inning on Tuesday night. Rodriguez threw up his hands, stopping David Lough just a few strides from scoring the tying run against the Indians.
  June 20, 2013 - Kansas City Royals

Quotes

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• Lula da Silva in New York Times
  We must not allow the burden of the boundless greed of a few to be shouldered by all,said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil in an opening speech that reflected the tone of the gathering.
• Barack Obama in USA Today
  Obama said a House plan to tax couples earning more than $1 million a year to help pay for the plan "meets my principle that it's not being shouldered by families who are already having a tough time."
• Michael Hayden in AFP
  But the order "gives us the legal clarity we have sought. It gives our officers the assurance that they may conduct their essential work in keeping with the laws of the United States," said Hayden. "We have shouldered that responsibility for...