shunt
Example Sentences
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At the final selection, I, along with all the other able-bodied souls, was shunted to one side, headed for the newly built Plaszow forced-labor camp.
From Literature
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Born 24 weeks premature, she has cerebral palsy, a partial visual impairment and a shunt.
From BBC
"Increases in speed of processing have sometimes come at the expense of the quality of decisions, and improvements in one area have shunted problems elsewhere."
From BBC
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
At the time, Piquet described the shunt into the wall as a "simple mistake".
From BBC
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