shrug

Example Sentences

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Car buyers continued to shrug off higher prices earlier this year even as they pared back shopping for everything from dishwashers to beer.

From The Wall Street Journal

It's often easy to shrug it off, but there's a risk.

From BBC

Although the stock market as a whole generally tends to shrug off shutdowns, airline stocks can be a different story.

From Barron's

But businesses in Tokyo largely shrugged off any anxiety.

From Barron's

For most of the past decade and a half, stocks have boomed, shrugging off every decline.

From The Wall Street Journal