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As a general partner, Gehan’s company assumed the show’s financial liability, along with Arnold and the British producers who had shepherded the show from its overseas beginnings, Sam Julyan and James Yeoburn.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Dida was a "great repository of many decades worth of knowledge", and had shepherded "her herd through many seasons and challenging times", it added.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2022

As Musgrove told the story Friday, his parents had shepherded everyone into the stadium, then went back to the car and left him and his friend in the outfield.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2022

He had been widely credited with whittling away Chesapeake's $13 billion debt load with a conservative approach to spending and had shepherded the company through bankruptcy.

From Reuters • Jan. 18, 2022

He had watched the beginnings of every diocese, and had shepherded in person every settlement before it attained to diocesan status.

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)