shunning

Example Sentences

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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

Retail investors became net sellers of individual stocks for the first time in nine months, shunning energy and other tech sectors.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

All of these would normally be reasons to seek out safety in bonds, rather than shunning them.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

It isn’t that they are intentionally shunning on-campus activities and events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

School continued to be a minefield, with kids shunning and mocking me, and I dreaded going there every day.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana