shew
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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In 2010, shew as awarded the International Cosmos Prize, which included a cash award of nearly $500,000.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024
The silent awe, the humble, the doubting eye, and even the hesitating voice, better shew it. . . .
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
“I do not think the office of reporters ought to be to criticize particular passages of a paper but to shew its place,” he told Lubbock.
From Nature • Apr. 18, 2016
Sullivan liked to promise his audiences "a r-r-really big shew," and far more often than not he delivered.
From Time Magazine Archive
So likewise those living creatures that are enemies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us that such poisons will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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