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Working at a time when German academies shunned women, she forged a unique path forward—a journey recounted in this show, her first monographic New York museum exhibition.

She writes: “We hadn’t made our record to garner fame and fortune. We made it for the art rats known and unknown, the marginalized, the shunned, the disowned.”

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For years, weight loss was a graveyard for drug development and shunned by large drugmakers.

Parties approved to participate in Myanmar's junta-organised elections are set to start campaigning Tuesday, two months ahead of a poll being shunned at home and abroad as a ploy to legitimise military rule.

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Treasury yields moved higher then amid fears that global investors were shunning U.S. assets and that inflation would ramp up.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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