shunt
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Funders shunt capital from around the world into U.S. lawsuits, taking a cut of any recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Sienna was then taken by ambulance to Noah's Ark Children's Hospital in Cardiff for urgent treatment, including the insertion of an emergency shunt and a major brain operation that left her in intensive care.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
She is currently living on $1,206 a month in and out of her van with a failing shunt in her head, which doctors implanted to treat her cyst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
The bouncer is intimidating, the attendants shunt customers to digital kiosks, and there are no attractive, informative displays for browsing.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2025
Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
Rather than ushering the victim to the next life, this shunts him further into obscurity and ignominy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
"Most of them are shunts", she said, adding: "But there have been several nasty accidents also."
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
This shunts air molecules to the Jacobson’s organ.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
With narrative elegance, formal brio and exquisite feeling, Cooper ushers Felicia into the spotlight and sometimes shunts the attention-hogging Lenny off into the wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
As soon as we’re at the top, she shunts us to the side and swings around to face me.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Aerial footage of the aftermath shows the two damaged trains with most carriages on the tracks but at least one shunted off.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
He’s even patrolling center field again after being shunted off to right in a failed attempt to keep him intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
While the ban has resolved the problem in the restricted areas, concerns have been raised by some that it has simply shunted the issue elsewhere.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
James, who scored 16 points in Thursday's loss, appeared to injure his left elbow in the fourth quarter, after he was shunted off the court and landed on the legs of a cameraman.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
It shunted onto a new series of tracks, dipping down to a barren zone of rail yards and slum shacks, before shunting again.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz was swept to power last year, shunting aside nearly a generation of socialist rule in this landlocked country and winning friends in the Trump administration for his pro-market views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
In the meantime, she said, shunting well-liked leaders will sink morale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
That process would not only exert enormous mechanical stresses on the magnets, it would also require safely shunting tens of gigawatts of power in and out of them with exquisite efficiency, Gourlay says.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
Excursion operators Belmond said a "shunting incident" occurred when Flying Scotsman was being coupled with the company's Royal Scotsman carriages.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2023
They waved at him, but had no chance to speak to him because the mass of people around them was shunting them away along the platform.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
