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
Writers need to look in both directions, and shunt phrases around to keep them from dangerous liaisons with an inappropriate next-door neighbor.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
People perceived to look honest or trustworthy are more likely to receive job offers; those we deem shifty are shunted to the social sidelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
While the ban has resolved the problem in the restricted areas, concerns have been raised by some that it has simply shunted the issue elsewhere.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 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
“The noise was very loud, like an enormous train with squeaky axles being shunted with much bumping and clattering,” added Worsley.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
It has been described as a low-speed "shunting incident" which happened while the Flying Scotsman was being coupled with carriages.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023
“What are they?” asked Bronwyn, undoing the cloth to reveal a hunk of brownish meat with little tubes shunting out of it.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
