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shrug

noun as in gesticulation

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noun as in gesture

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verb as in jerk

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Foster shrugged off a season-opening 43-10 loss to Utah, saying his team was close to making the plays it needed to be competitive.

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Political analysts began to wonder if this would be the latest in the long line of potential scandals and controversies that the president shrugs off.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Joe Biden much the same thing, while shrugging off concerns about Israel’s merciless killing of civilians in Gaza.

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Asked about the lack of effort in preventing the other team from scoring, then-Lakers center Anthony Davis shrugged and said, “It’s an All-Star Game.”

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Han Yongguang, 75, shrugged off any suggestion that Western leaders had shunned the parade.

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