shunt
Example Sentences
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These days, art emphasizing subject matter often shunts form to the side, as if the visual analysis that form demands is irrelevant.
From Los Angeles Times
Later that year he met Mr Bannon, who had just been shunted out of his White House post.
From BBC
In the 3½-minute video, Haley shunts aside, ignores or demonizes the differences that influence the ways people view this country and their place in it.
From Washington Post
Many were shunted off to cable channels like Hallmark to be blandified into a predictable formula.
From Salon
Nearly all the remaining water is shunted aside into an immense canal and flows toward the farmlands and cities of Baja California.
From Los Angeles Times
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