Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunted
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Administration officials have signaled, both publicly and privately, that their immigration enforcement strategy has shifted to some degree following Operation Metro Surge, the operation in Minnesota.—
Julia Ingram,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026 -
An Israeli military official said its focus has shifted to Lebanon during a two-week ceasefire with Iran.—
CNN staff,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said there were three people transferred to an area hospital with critical injuries, with at least one of them having to be extricated due to their foot becoming trapped.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Instead, Jackson was placed with a foster family unrelated to him for several weeks, then transferred to his grandfather’s custody in Roseville.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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While the small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos posed no threat to Earth, the mission served as a successful demonstration that dangerous space rocks could be diverted from a collision course with Earth.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
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Construction equipment was mobilized to the project area March 23, and traffic was diverted away from the Twenty Mile Road's northbound lanes and onto the southbound lanes March 25.—
Olivia Young,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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But, for all the sensationalism that has attended the reporting of this story, nothing that Orbán said privately deviated from his public positions.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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There’s been times when he’s deviated from such plans in the past for that reason.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Martone deflected a point shot from Matvei Michkov, the 21-year-old Russian who navigated an uneven first half of the season only to heat up as the games heightened in importance down the stretch.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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McTavish deflected a shot by Mikael Granlund for his second goal of the night and his 17th of the season.—
Oc Register,
Oc Register,
15 Apr. 2026
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To keep costs down, many switched to a high-deductible health plan.—
Jackie Fortiér,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
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Payload was Amazon’s two test Project Kuiper satellites that were set to fly on ULA’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket, but switched to one of the nine Atlas rockets Amazon had previously purchased from ULA as Vulcan had been delayed to no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
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Instead, the drive has redirected its energy toward dropping cards of encouragement and flowers at the homes of service members' families.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
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Those living in encampments can be redirected to areas in which schools and businesses are not within close proximity and won’t be subjected to arrest or citation.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm struggled to make the cut — DeChambeau didn’t, Rahm did — but Englishman Tyrrell Hatton of Legion XIII shot a 6-under-par 66 and moved into contention to win his first major championship.—
Stan Awtrey,
AJC.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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Consider what has befallen them in the 11 centuries since Hungarian tribes moved into the Carpathian Basin, in 896.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Shunted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunted. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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