shunted

verb

past tense of shunt
as in shifted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunted
  1. shifted
  2. transferred
  3. diverted
  4. deviated
  5. deflected
  6. switched
  7. redirected
  8. moved
Verb
  • Election forecaster Cook Political Report shifted Ohio’s gubernatorial race toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton on Friday after a week of backlash over an ad Republican Vivek Ramaswamy ran featuring her estranged mother.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The risk shifted to Utah's southeast, where streams ran fast and high.
    — MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of shifted
Verb
  • General admission floor tickets could not be transferred and could be resold only at face value, a rule meant to curb scalping.
    — James LaForge, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Any unspent money would remain in the fund for the benefit of families with newborns and could not be transferred to other city purposes.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of transferred
Verb
  • The $10 million, part of a settlement offered by a company that overcharged Medicaid, was diverted into other hands, starting with the Hope Florida Foundation, the favorite charity of First Lady Casey DeSantis.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Seventy-one percent of the water diverted from the lake’s basin is allocated to agriculture.
    — Silvia Console Battilana, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of diverted
Verb
  • But over time, due to a variety of systems issues with obtaining certain medications, the lethal injection protocol has deviated from the standard devised by Chapman.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The Bengals deviated from strategy this offseason and paid for a defense.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of deviated
Verb
  • Kessler deflected his success, crediting the play of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Argentine first fired a shot at the top of the box that was deflected.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of deflected
Verb
  • Marriott also recently switched from Pepsi to Coke, Galbo remarked in the note.
    — Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers demonstrated that the direction could be switched by reversing the voltage polarity.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of switched
Verb
  • The family was redirected to Journey Church, where authorities sent everyone to be reunited with their children.
    — Taylor Galgano, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The baseline, above which revenue will be redirected, is not yet known.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of redirected
Verb
  • Deloitte found only 25% of organizations have moved 40% or more of their AI pilots into production.
    — Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Trees fell onto homes and utility poles were knocked down by a possible tornado in a central Arizona community during a series of violent storms that moved through the state overnight into Thursday.
    — Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of moved
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