shunt
Example Sentences
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These days, art emphasizing subject matter often shunts form to the side, as if the visual analysis that form demands is irrelevant.
From Los Angeles Times
Later that year he met Mr Bannon, who had just been shunted out of his White House post.
From BBC
If many far-right players have been shunted aside, the ideology has not been.
From New York Times
In some cases, ambulances were shunted from one hospital to the next.
From Seattle Times
“That the unique historical and economic circumstances of the 1970s gave rise to a near cultish obsession with changes in price levels, shunting aside the importance of equitable growth, is a tragedy,” he writes.
From Seattle Times
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