shunt

"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

She is currently living on $1,206 a month in and out of her van with a failing shunt in her head, which doctors implanted to treat her cyst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

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

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

With narrative elegance, formal brio and exquisite feeling, Cooper ushers Felicia into the spotlight and sometimes shunts the attention-hogging Lenny off into the wings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

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

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

In the middle, it can be hard to shake the Dwight Schrute-esque caricature of a manager who was shunted into some do-nothing role where he can’t cause too much damage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

I enumerated the many times that we had brought our grievances before the government and the equal number of times that we were ignored or shunted aside.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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