shunning

Example Sentences

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Some investors are shunning private-credit funds, but billions of dollars are still flowing into funds with a big software exposure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

It isn’t that he’s shunning artificial intelligence—he is learning Spanish with the help of Anthropic’s Claude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

We look at where the managers are most “overweight,” meaning the assets on which they are placing their biggest bets, and most “underweight,” meaning the assets they are shunning.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Takaichi -- who also stands out as a non-hereditary politician from an ordinary family -- has distanced herself from old-school politics, shunning late-night drinks and fancy dinners in favour of pre-dawn policy meetings.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

He left no explanation for shunning his cure.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy