shrugging

present participle of shrug

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Verb
  • Advertisement PurpleAir doesn’t forecast pollution, while AccuWeather tries to predict AQI hourly throughout the day for towns or cities based on available data informing their models.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What is informing your take on the present-day mob families in New York?
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Eastern-style methods, including tongue and pulse diagnoses, along with the more Western-nodding body composition analysis, nutritional advice and detox regimens like the three-day program designed by tennis legend Novak Djokovic, enable guests to tailor their ideal wellness retreat.
    Terry Elward, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing’s more awkward than everyone nodding along to a beat that’s barely audible.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Online channels are flourishing as well.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Julianne cited her sisters' accomplishments in their own fields, as well as their flourishing personal lives, as a reason why the sadness never flowered into full-on resentment.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Working Within The Trade And With Private Clients Enhancing and relating the company legacy is vitally important to Amenc, who started working for Golay Fils & Stahl in 2001.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In a statement, a lawyer for Ortiz said his client’s guilty plea was highly tailored, relating only to his transactions with Pérez in the context of concert performances.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • White House chief of staff Susie Wiles held an emotional meeting with staff on Wednesday after the assassination, telling members to go home and hug their families, the Wall Street Journal reported.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • With his latest weigh-in blunder, there's no telling whether Dana White, who has publicly criticized Gastelum for his egregious weigh-in mishaps in the past, will cut the longtime vet.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some brokers are facilitating this fraud by signing people up for coverage without their knowledge—and collecting a commission for their effort.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The plan was to phase him in gradually but an injury crisis meant he was handed his debut against Chelsea a day after signing.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The bank is advising its clients to take that change seriously, Sarah Kapnick, its global head of climate advisory, told Semafor.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One woman, who identified herself only as Alice, questioned why the county wasn’t advising individuals living here illegally to self-deport.
    Grace Hase, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Shrugging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrugging. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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