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
At the time, Piquet described the shunt into the wall as a "simple mistake".
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
Surgical treatment usually involves placement of a shunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
All around are flat-roofed, boxy warehouse buildings, and beyond them the flat railroad lands where the trains used to shunt back and forth, once the only entertainment available here on Sundays.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
As soon as we’re at the top, she shunts us to the side and swings around to face me.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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
Jostling for position as he awaited a cross, the 40-year-old shunted his elbow into O'Shea's back, sparking a strong reaction from the Irish players and fans.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sudani needs to win enough seats in Parliament to show that he can’t be shunted aside, analysts said, a tall order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
One time, a teenage girl, writing for her high school newspaper, was roughly shunted aside by the sportswriter pack before a Cincinnati Reds game.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2025
“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
The National Railway Museum, which owns the Flying Scotsman, said the shunting incident involved its locomotive and Royal Scotsman train carriages.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023
A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
