shunt
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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
Thankfully, he walked away from a huge shunt and will have time to recover fully before we go racing again in early May.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Born 24 weeks premature, she has cerebral palsy, a partial visual impairment and a shunt.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
Surgical treatment usually involves placement of a shunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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
Cardiff meanwhile, are able to get in behind quite easily but strong Glasgow defence shunts Mackenzie Martin into touch.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
This shunts air molecules to the Jacobson’s organ.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
With narrative elegance, formal brio and exquisite feeling, Cooper ushers Felicia into the spotlight and sometimes shunts the attention-hogging Lenny off into the wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Gronau ran to Rice, who stood in the engine pit monitoring pressures and the play of shafts and shunts.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
The role is even shunted aside by prominent experts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Gerrard and Lampard, who struggled to dovetail, were paired centrally and Scholes, who the Swede regarded as his "most talented player," was shunted left.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
During Kelter's 10-minute stint in the sin-bin, Maud Muir shunted over from close range before Kildunne crossed at the end of a sweeping coast-to-coast move.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
By all appearances they were going to be shunted aside, humiliated for the sake of Ulbrickson’s all too precious sophomores.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
Excursion operators Belmond said a "shunting incident" occurred when Flying Scotsman was being coupled with the company's Royal Scotsman carriages.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2023
A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
