shunt
Example Sentences
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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
Later that year he met Mr Bannon, who had just been shunted out of his White House post.
From BBC
Dependent on a small number of elite Special Forces units that were shunted from province to province as more cities fell to the Taliban, the already high rate of desertion in the regular army soared.
From Reuters
Bairstow has endured a difficult two-year period in which he has lost the wicketkeeping gloves, been dropped, recalled, rested and shunted around the order.
From BBC
Black patients — as well as qualified Black doctors, nurses and medical technicians — could not be denied admittance, or shunted into inferior wings.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
