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You won’t hear that from the Wall Street giants promoting investments in funds that shun publicly traded stocks and bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

You don't need to shun your favourite coffee either just because it's hot - although too much caffeine can make the body produce more urine, and leave you dehydrated.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Nor should it shun folks from the baking community.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Totalling around 1,200 people, these include the Nicobarese as well as the Shompen, hunter-gatherers who shun contact with outsiders, who Survival describes as "one of the most isolated peoples on Earth."

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The spirits, for reasons still unclear to me, shun my every attempt to channel them into my unfortunate sketches.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

"A palace not fit for a King," continues the Daily Express, as King Charles "shuns" Buckingham Palace "despite £369m refurbishment".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

She shuns luxury, is known for wearing simple white cotton sarees and flip-flops, and is called simply Didi, or older sister.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Scott follows an almost entirely vegan diet, shuns processed foods, and prefers to fast in the mornings.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

Kouki said he likes using his phone to watch Japanese baseball highlights, but the family now shuns screens during mealtimes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

And yet, whenever his pain made him harden his heart against her and bid himself, “Milk the ewe you have; why pursue what shuns you?”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Vote counting was under way early Friday after an unusual English by-election shunned by mainstream parties, pitting influential hard-right leader Nigel Farage against Count Binface, a man with a rubbish bin on his head.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

That ascendance has ratcheted up pressure on corporate leaders to take meetings with a party that many of them previously shunned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Once she settles in, the girl befriends other spirits and wins them over with her acceptance and understanding — including a few shunned by everyone else, like the famous No-Face.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Being adopted by a white family, only to be shunned by the Native community, perpetuated his lifelong feeling of being an outsider.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

I looked up at him: he shunned my eye.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Traditionally, he says, men "almost need a bit of a scare" to start trying to shed the pounds, seeing it as something private and shunning the more social approach some women prefer, like slimming clubs.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Others accused them of romanticising self isolation and encouraging an "air of cosy defeatism" by shunning social connections.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The 2019-founded company builds AI models for businesses and governments, shunning the consumer applications explored by its giant American rivals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

I thought about shunning her for temporarily forgetting about me, but what good would that do?

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata