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Recent Examples of shunt
After being temporarily shunted into portable cabins, Manchester United’s women’s squad are considering using the FA’s St George’s Park complex as a training base.
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Phil Hay, The Athletic, 4 July 2024
Nonetheless, time is consumed even when the content is being merely shunted along.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
The manner in which tens of thousands of bags a day are shunted around at terminals A and B is akin to an aging car kept running with pliers and duct tape, racing from breakdown to breakdown and overheating.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2024
Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
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Phil Hay, The Athletic, 4 July 2024
Nonetheless, time is consumed even when the content is being merely shunted along.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
The manner in which tens of thousands of bags a day are shunted around at terminals A and B is akin to an aging car kept running with pliers and duct tape, racing from breakdown to breakdown and overheating.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2024
Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunt
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Then there’s the compounded effect of Trump’s withdrawal from WHO while also switching course on U.S. policy on climate change, which ups the risk of new and existing infectious diseases affecting Americans.—
Lisa Jarvis,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Dsquared2, which has embraced the coed format for a few seasons, also exceptionally switched the timing, moving from the city’s men’s schedule to the women’s one to mark its 30th anniversary.—
Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
28 Jan. 2025
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Heading cuts are intended to remove the terminal bud at the end of a main stem where most growth takes place and redirect the plant’s energies toward growth on side branches.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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With better energy efficiency and fewer hardware demands, industries such as healthcare, automotive manufacturing and renewable energy can reclaim critical resources and redirect them toward innovation.—
Eric Solis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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But strikers Carlos Vinicius, Islam Slimani and, to an extent, Darwin Nunez have struggled to transfer their Primeira Liga form in Portugal to the Premier League.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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In August that same year, her employer transferred her to the position of night guest laundry attendant at a wage of $16.50 an hour.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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And then, like the snap of a finger, something shifted.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
27 Jan. 2025
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In adolescence, those inclinations shifted toward the bohemia of the late-1960s art scene, and upon leaving home and going west, CalArts proved a sympathetic environment for his singular talents and personality.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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To land the kiss on her cheek, Trump would have had to either crane his neck or move her hat.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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The snow is moving east Tuesday, and is affecting coastal areas all the way to the Florida Panhandle and southern Carolinas.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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By 2019, the fluctuations had deviated so far from the prior model that scientists updated the WMM a year early.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s decision to deviate from that formula and provide reprieve for even the most violent Jan. 6 protesters has put congressional Republicans in an uncomfortable spot.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Josh Morrissey’s wrister went off the leg of Gabriel Vilardi, who was standing at the front left side of Blackwood, and the puck deflected into the net.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2025
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Lettieri deflected in Oesterle’s shot for his second goal in two games.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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However, an active-duty U.S. Army pilot tells PEOPLE that the goggles may have actually hindered the pilots’ efforts to avert the crash with the airliner.—
Maria Pasquini,
People.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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By upgrading the recall status, the agency seeks to ensure that consumers are adequately informed and aware of the potential health risks, thereby promoting proactive measures to avert potential health impacts.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Shunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunt. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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