shopkeeper
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With glasses perched on his nose, 43-year-old shopkeeper Minati Rout completes his journey by passing a final test: separating small pebbles from grains of rice.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Lamin Kongira said he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out shouting "fire, fire".
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
With these five simple words, a Hindu man who stood up for a Muslim shopkeeper has been catapulted to fame and become an unlikely hero in India.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
"Simba is very important to us because he keeps the shop clean of the mice," Austin Moreno, a shopkeeper in Manhattan, told AFP from behind his till.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
A man lumbers into the shop—it’s the shopkeeper come from his house across the street.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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