shunt

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Recent Examples of shunt As process is shunted aside in favor of one person’s will, the state’s ability to gather accurate information and make effective judgments corrodes; its capacity to design, refine, and implement policy disappears. Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025 Other than very delicately shunting around extremely fragile neutral atom quantum computers or superconducting circuits, teleportation is one of the main ways quantum information can be physically moved through space. Lucas Laursen, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2025 Reform proposals offered by both Democrats and Republicans often are shunted aside, including during the height of the Madigan scandal. Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025 The design also allows the gases to be shunted off as soon as they are produced, reducing the risk of explosion. science.org, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shunt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunt
Verb
  • The Spaniard made the move after winning the 2023 Masters, which changed his thinking about switching allegiances.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Instead of getting a haircut every three months, switch to every six months, for example.
    Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Supporting others in tangible ways - like volunteering, donating, or organizing - can help redirect anxiety into collective empowerment.
    Nicole Lipkin, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The severity of the symptoms of arterial thrombosis in the leg varies, depending on which artery is affected, the time course of the artery blockage (sudden versus gradual), and whether the body can redirect blood flow through other arteries.
    Alicen Nelson MD, Verywell Health, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • According to Nature, the findings offer the first evidence for squirrels transferring the virus to primates.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Revell said the suspect will need a significant amount of time to recover from his injuries after which he'll be transferred to a detention facility.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The payment shifted to CPS in 2020 in an effort to financially detangle the district from the city.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, Outback will shift to setting consistently low prices.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Our reporters talk to each other and move around candidates from one category to another.
    Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The bill also included moving $1.1 million from the Constitutional Defense Fund into the Legislative Legal Defense Fund.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Even Porziņģis missing time throughout the playoffs didn’t force the Celtics to deviate much from their plan.
    Jay King, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The main function of the yeast deviated from producing good beer to simply being able to survive for an extraordinarily long period of time without its primary food source: barley sugar.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Built in the 17th century, the national monument is made of native coquina stones, which absorbed or deflected enemy projectiles, giving the Spanish an advantage.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The defender was even better in 2023, earning First-team All-American honors after securing three interceptions and deflecting seven passes.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse The evidence is similarly clear on Trump’s argument that continued reliance on tariffs to fund the government would have averted the Great Depression.
    Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The United States and Iran are preparing for talks on Tehran's nuclear program in Oman to avert a possible military confrontation that could have devastating consequences far beyond the Middle East.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Shunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunt. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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