shunt
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"When this happens, queens have their own defense. Maternal offloading allows them to shunt the toxic burden to their eggs."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
Surgical treatment usually involves placement of a shunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
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 ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
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
Advocates for people living outside, in campers and other makeshift quarters have long expressed the worry that those vulnerable people get shunted aside when major events come to town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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
Currently the only way for trains to cross the Strait is to have the coaches shunted onto ferries and carried over the sea in a 30-minute journey.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
She gave Razi’s boat a friendly bump that shunted it backward into Marco’s, knocking him off his feet.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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
"That's the irony in this situation, that one part of the system might boast that they're doing relatively well but actually, that's shunting the issue and the cost to local taxpayers," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
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
