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But while Harry and Meghan enjoyed some success in showbusiness, their Hollywood reign proved short-lived and California has greeted news of their departure back to the UK with a shrug.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

“People can call her whatever they want,” she says with a shrug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Allman, for his part, was quick to shrug off the backlash, noting that it is only natural for his wife’s fans to seek out someone or something to blame for her exit.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Home builders and developers are responding mostly with a shrug.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

"It's in the marshmallows," Deirdre said with a shrug.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

"Homer is 2,800 years old, while the Turkish-Greek border is only a century old," he shrugs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

She shrugs off Maddie getting faint at dance class because she threw up her lunch.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

"The truth is, maybe I just fear the unknown," she shrugs.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

When asked if the film made him consider his own legacy as an artist, he shrugs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

She shrugs her shoulders, and seeing that they’re still up by her ears, I think she’s somehow about to raise them past the top of her head.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

Nakagawa has shrugged off his sceptics and said engineers must build new products that benefit from MPC.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Strikers Thierno Barry and Beto had shrugged off early-season struggles to start scoring goals.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“He just kind of shrugged it off, like it wasn’t a huge concern for him,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

U.S. stocks were slightly lower in cautious trading on Monday, as chip shares bounced back from last week’s bruising selloff and investors shrugged off a new Chinese AI model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The way his eyes darted around before he said “Peace out”? Michael shrugged.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

They’re getting every team’s best shot, as they knew they would, and they’re ... shrugging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

It’s just a huge amount of money, and everybody’s sort of shrugging their shoulders.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Even when they’re shrugging off his sins with a smile, his old bandmates have to give him that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

For Microsoft, crossing this milestone could indicate that the stock is shrugging off AI fears.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

“Sure,” Stella said, shrugging, still trying to feel as if sitting outside with a boy at three in the morning was a perfectly normal thing to be doing.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper