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shrug
noun as in gesticulation
noun as in gesture
Weak matches
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It's often easy to shrug it off, but there's a risk.
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Although the stock market as a whole generally tends to shrug off shutdowns, airline stocks can be a different story.
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But businesses in Tokyo largely shrugged off any anxiety.
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For most of the past decade and a half, stocks have boomed, shrugging off every decline.
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He was quiet for a moment, then shrugged off his mood with ease, the way one might shrug off a coat upon coming indoors.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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