shunt

NPH is one of the few causes of dementia that can be controlled or reversed with surgical treatment, usually involving the placement of a shunt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"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

"We need a framework. If people don't have an idea of what to do, then very often they will just do nothing or shunt it on to somewhere else," Ms Matuozzo said.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

This shunts air molecules to the Jacobson’s organ.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024

Channel 7, which normally shunts sports on to a secondary channel at 6pm to make way for its flagship news show, delayed its bulletin in order to show the game in an unprecedented move.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2023

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

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

He’s even patrolling center field again after being shunted off to right in a failed attempt to keep him intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 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

It shunted onto a new series of tracks, dipping down to a barren zone of rail yards and slum shacks, before shunting again.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

At this World Cup, they did everything to put the ball in his vicinity, while he stalked around, shunting his way into space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In the meantime, she said, shunting well-liked leaders will sink morale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

It has repeatedly shut plaintiffs out of court entirely by shunting them into forced arbitration.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 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

After church I go with the Smeaths through the vacant Sunday streets to watch the trains shunting monotonously back and forth along their tracks, on the gray plain beside the flat lake.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood