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
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
"We need a framework. If people don't have an idea of what to do, then very often they will just do nothing or shunt it on to somewhere else," Ms Matuozzo said.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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
All around are flat-roofed, boxy warehouse buildings, and beyond them the flat railroad lands where the trains used to shunt back and forth, once the only entertainment available here on Sundays.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
Gronau ran to Rice, who stood in the engine pit monitoring pressures and the play of shafts and shunts.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
However, the BBC also heard stories from some of Jaf's less-well-off passengers who described being shunted onto dangerously overpacked boats late at night and left to steer themselves across the English Channel.
From BBC ● May 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
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
"Increases in speed of processing have sometimes come at the expense of the quality of decisions, and improvements in one area have shunted problems elsewhere."
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
I enumerated the many times that we had brought our grievances before the government and the equal number of times that we were ignored or shunted aside.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
Railway excursion operators Belmond has described Friday's accident as a "shunting incident".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
