- present participle of shut.
shutting
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Kevin Martinez has come up with a creative new way to avoid shutting his restaurant when water runs low in Cuba, a common source of frustration for the business owner.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
District officials took the unprecedented step of shutting down all district computer systems to limit the damage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Instead of simply shutting down a cancer-promoting protein, the scientists designed a small molecule that connects it to another protein capable of activating the cell's built-in death program.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Rather than shutting it down or locking themselves away in their own feelings."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
I imagined them just shutting off like factory machines at the end of a shift: functioning, purposeful, and then just out.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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