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shoulder

noun

The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.

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The word "shoulder" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to the body part, e.g. "He carried the heavy box on his shoulder," or as a verb to mean "to accept responsibility," e.g. "She shouldered the blame for the mistake."

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The Commonwealth is not putting their shoulder to the wheel".

It is good news that that Mr Younger's commission will be looking over Labour's shoulder with the keenest interest.

Sayeeda Warsi was offered the job of "senior minister of state" at the Foreign Office, with the right to attend cabinet, over the phone on a motorway hard shoulder.

Then migrate to the restaurant proper for a feast of unfussy regional dishes such as pizza diavolo with salami and chilli or maccheroni al' ragu made with suckling lamb shoulder.

Sure, there might be some benefits in learning to stop your brain whirring 24 hours a day, but to do that while sitting on a hard wooden floor for 10 hours a day while nursing a painful shoulder is probably not advisable.

Instead of addressing my ongoing shoulder pain I booked myself on a flight to Rishikesh, India's spiritual heartland.

That's when, finally, I figured it was time to go home, time to tell my family what had happened and have the shoulder x-rayed.

Still, she frequently looks over her shoulder when roaming the streets.

One of the four jailed al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt no longer has full use of his arm after being denied proper medical treatment in prison for a shoulder injury suffered before he entered custody.

Ragia Omran, a lawyer for the Cairo-based Arab Human Rights Institute who visited Fahmy in prison on Wednesday, said his shoulder, already dislocated from a previous fall, had been fractured when the detainees were transported to Cairo's Qasr en-Nil police station for interrogation.

I know now that there are the odd moments of relief as the stress ekes away and the hard weight that felt like it was sitting uncomfortably between your shoulder blades slips off.

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