Thesaurus results for SHUNT

shunt

verb

Definition of shunt

as in to switch

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Recent Examples of shunt Music zines often had the same format, columns from semi-famous punks, interviews with up-and-coming bands, record reviews, and, always shunted to the back, zine reviews. — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 That such a blunder might be shrugged off and even celebrated, rather than shamefully shunted away, struck Schuch as a very American notion. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 The clams shunt sulfur- and oxygen-rich water to bacteria that live inside the clams’ gills. — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026 An injury crisis led to him featuring regularly from that point onwards, and he was shunted across the defence depending on which other players were available. — Jay Harris, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shunt

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Optogenetics allows scientists to use light to switch cells on and off.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026
Angi data shows 60 percent of consumers are now putting off projects and switching to maintenance.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of switch

Verb

Regional traffic will be redirected to roads such as Southwest 10th Street, Powerline Road, Dixie Highway and Sample Road, and local traffic will be redirected along Military Trail and Northeast Third Avenue.

— Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Black box data and the position of the controls in the cockpit show the speed brakes and thrust reversers, which redirect air to slow the plane, were not used.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of redirect

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According to court records, the money obtained was allegedly transferred to various individuals and businesses, primarily Annas 4 Contracting, LLC, and New Life Painters, LLC.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
This is also the first congressional election cycle since George Soros transferred control of his political operation to Alex in 2023.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of transfer

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There are about a million moving parts, and everybody involved is an outsized character.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, arguing that allowing the case to move forward prevents the lower court from considering Pike’s allegations from her childhood.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of move

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Neon has been in communication the SCP Wiki team to ensure the film’s distribution does not deviate from their mission and licensing guidelines.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
The complication shows the moon phases for both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with a 135-tooth driving wheel that drastically enhances accuracy, deviating by just one day every 122 years.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of deviate

Verb

Others, including Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella, who recently launched a crackdown on Venezuelan migrants in his country, will be tempted to stoke xenophobia to deflect blame for policy shortcomings.

— DAN RESTREPO, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
Two experiments but same result The researchers operated the QPC in a weak-backscattering regime, allowing most quasiparticles to pass while randomly deflecting a small fraction.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of deflect

Verb

While people in Israel are praising the passengers and the captain as heroes for averting disaster, a broader debate is emerging over government failures that allowed something like this to happen, Lonsdorf says.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026
Each time the door shut behind the man, Shawn had the feeling that some danger had been temporarily dodged, some crisis averted until the next day.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

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