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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
The researchers found that those who had more fragmented sleep, time spent tossing and turning and switching positions in bed, at the start of the study had lower scores on all of the tests.
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Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
23 Oct. 2025
The thing about Ben and I switching from drums to guitar all night messed with my muscle memory.
Trimming off the old, dead stalk encourages the plant to redirect water and nutrients to new growth, allowing the orchid to develop a new flower stalk within several months.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Oct. 2025
Later, if the user pastes normally, they could be redirected to phishing sites and have sensitive log-in information stolen, including MFA (multifactor authentication) codes.
Holt, who has six cases pending in federal court over civil rights violation claims, said as soon as he was transferred, the state began trying to get the cases dismissed as moot, citing his relocation to West Virginia.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
Statistics shared on their website shows that only approximately 2 million dogs were adopted last year, 554,000 were returned to their owner, 524,000 were transferred to other organizations, and 334,000 were euthanized.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
On third-and-14, Mahomes’ next pass was deflected by a Raiders defender — yet somehow landed in the hands of Chiefs receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster for a 19-yard first down.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
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