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Recent Examples of shuntSuddenly, questions about the park’s opening are shunted aside in favor of whether or not anyone on the island can survive.—Will Harris, EW.com, 27 June 2025 Those wealthy enough to pay $1,000 up front would have their protection claims heard; those unable to pay would be shunted back to face persecution and the problems that drove them from their home countries to begin with.—Bill Frelick, Twin Cities, 27 June 2025 This season is also being broadcast in Australia on Channel Seven, a free-to-air television network, as the ongoing World Test Championship final between Australia and South Africa is shunted behind an online streaming service.—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025 But too often, Fins told me, patients are shunted into long-term-care homes that cannot provide the attention and rehab that could uncover subtle signs of consciousness.—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for shunt
That includes neck, back and shoulder aches, and fragmented sleep from switching positions more often throughout the night.
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Andee Tagle,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
Coleman said the company is switching to carob powder, which gives the chips a similar color, but needed to tweak the recipe to ensure the addition of the cocoa alternative wouldn’t affect the taste.
The White House has argued that the compact will strengthen free speech on campus by protecting conservative viewpoints and redirecting resources toward the sciences.
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Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Deadheading helps redirect the plant’s energy into producing more flowers instead of creating seeds.
Almost immediately after going to the Şengün-Adams lineup for the first time, the Rockets shifted into a zone defense that the Hawks were able to pick apart too often by making simple passes.
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William Guillory,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
However, many residents in high-flood-risk areas, like coastal or riverside communities, have shifted to private flood insurance programs that can cover more damage, said Ben Collier, an associate professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Observers say Trump is unlikely to deviate from this trend, but that military commanders can never be sure what approach a new administration will take in the future.
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Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
Its music is both jazzier and more operatic; the flow and technical blueprint of each stage completely deviate from what’s been seen before.
Nonprofit watchdog group Human Rights Watch and fellow comedians like David Cross and Marc Maron, however, are saying otherwise, accusing the festival of deflecting from the country's human rights violations and slamming their peers for their involvement.
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Jessica Wang,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Sep. 2025
The first was a sequence in which he was beaten to the middle of the ice by Jani Nyman, who was able to deflect a puck past Kevin Lankinen to open the scoring.
In April 2011, leaders of both parties came to an agreement following weeks of difficult negotiations and ultimately averted a government shutdown, as recapped by President Barack Obama.
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Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
But as midnight that day passed without a vote on a spending plan, lawmakers bought themselves some time with a stopgap funding plan to avert a partial government shutdown for a week.
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