shunt
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"When this happens, queens have their own defense. Maternal offloading allows them to shunt the toxic burden to their eggs."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Funders shunt capital from around the world into U.S. lawsuits, taking a cut of any recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
She is currently living on $1,206 a month in and out of her van with a failing shunt in her head, which doctors implanted to treat her cyst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
The bouncer is intimidating, the attendants shunt customers to digital kiosks, and there are no attractive, informative displays for browsing.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2025
All around are flat-roofed, boxy warehouse buildings, and beyond them the flat railroad lands where the trains used to shunt back and forth, once the only entertainment available here on Sundays.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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 ● Nov. 25, 2025
Rather than ushering the victim to the next life, this shunts him further into obscurity and ignominy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
"Most of them are shunts", she said, adding: "But there have been several nasty accidents also."
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
This shunts air molecules to the Jacobson’s organ.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
As soon as we’re at the top, she shunts us to the side and swings around to face me.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Advocates for people living outside, in campers and other makeshift quarters have long expressed the worry that those vulnerable people get shunted aside when major events come to town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
He’s even patrolling center field again after being shunted off to right in a failed attempt to keep him intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
James, who scored 16 points in Thursday's loss, appeared to injure his left elbow in the fourth quarter, after he was shunted off the court and landed on the legs of a cameraman.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
He has been shunted around the line-up and along the bench, with Beauden Barratt and Will Jordan edging him out as the starting fly-half and full-back respectively.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
“Come on!” said Greyback to his men, and the prisoners were shunted through the gates and up the drive, between high hedges that muffled their footsteps.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz was swept to power last year, shunting aside nearly a generation of socialist rule in this landlocked country and winning friends in the Trump administration for his pro-market views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
In the meantime, she said, shunting well-liked leaders will sink morale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
That process would not only exert enormous mechanical stresses on the magnets, it would also require safely shunting tens of gigawatts of power in and out of them with exquisite efficiency, Gourlay says.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
Railway excursion operators Belmond has described Friday's accident as a "shunting incident".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023
It shunted onto a new series of tracks, dipping down to a barren zone of rail yards and slum shacks, before shunting again.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
