shunt
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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
Born 24 weeks premature, she has cerebral palsy, a partial visual impairment and a shunt.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
The only option was brain surgery, to install a shunt to allow fluid to be drained from the brain - since then, Kobi has endured 16 surgeries.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
Immediately, even before I left the platform, I tried to shunt all memory of the event from me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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
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
He has been shunted around the line-up and along the bench, with Beauden Barratt and Will Jordan edging him out as the starting fly-half and full-back respectively.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 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
It meant Derek Cornelius shunted to left-back, with Tavernier at centre-back.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
For aesthetic reasons the boilers were to be located seven hundred feet outside the Midway, the steam shunted to the engines through ten-inch underground pipes.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
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
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
