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Rachel Brosnahan plays his wife, Iris, an actress manqué whose greatest feat of performance has been shaping herself into what he wants her to be.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

In what has been shaping up as a fascinating WSL title race, this Sunday could not have gone better for Emma Hayes' Chelsea.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2023

The biggest rebuke came from Kevin Roberts, the recently-appointed president of the Heritage Foundation, the great white whale of institutional conservatism, which has been shaping Republican priorities since the first years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2022

Lately Holt, who was a registered Republican until 2016 and is now an independent, has been shaping his program to include more explicit discussions of race.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

Rest assured that is the happy life; the life Natural Selection has been shaping for man since life began.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)