shun

Example Sentences

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Assets are valued using a “risk-free” interest rate, and an investor’s tolerance in either taking risk on, or shunning it entirely, dictates the prices of those assets throughout the whole of their tradable life.

From Barron's

Anderson mostly shuns campaigning, preferring the work to speak for itself.

From Los Angeles Times

The rapper typically shuns the media, but told the Financial Times while he was on the campaign trail he would be "the candidate for all of Nepal".

From BBC

This in turn could cause investors to “prefer safer investments and shun risk … during the trading day following … a disturbance in their sleep patterns. This could push down stock prices following daylight saving shifts.”

From MarketWatch

She asked not to be named or pictured over fears she would be shunned by her neighbours.

From BBC