Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunts
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Her attention now switches to the mixed team relay on Saturday.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
19 Feb. 2026 -
If so, that trial will be rescheduled for sometime after Wallace switches to a different division of Denver District Court as part of a routine rotation.—
Justin Wingerter,
Denver Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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Instead of relying on heavy, mechanically complex actuators like those found on fighters such as the F-35B or Russia’s Su-37, the new system reshapes and redirects engine exhaust using purely aerodynamic surfaces.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026
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One hack for a small space in need of division is the Japanese noren—a room divider made from cloth that redirects the flow of a space by creating, in effect, a partition wall.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
5 Feb. 2026
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The law shifts the financial burden of paying brokers from renters to landlords.—
Mahsa Saeidi,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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However, for Rose Reese’s return also shifts attention back toward Rose’s postseason outlook.—
D’Joumbarey Moreau,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bernthal tells me that Guirgis’s take on Dog Day Afternoon deviates from the film in key ways, such as fleshing out some of the more minor characters, including the bank staff, and going deeper on Sonny and Sal’s dynamic.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2026
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The duo particularly split over the showrunner’s plan for season three which deviates from Martin’s source material in ways that Condal has suggested were pragmatic and necessary.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Feb. 2026
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The facility works closely with Hoover Dam and transfers power to the Los Angeles basin, McMahill said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Feb. 2026
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The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Feb. 2026
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Yas deflects her concerns as naivete.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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The Attorney General of the United States deflects and denies.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
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Often the company moves as one organic mass, a school of fish or flock of birds.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
1 Mar. 2026
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On a February Los Angeles morning, Gyllenhaal moves briskly across the lobby of a low-key-chic hotel, barely breaking stride to ask that, instead of a discreet celeb-friendly indoor corner table, perhaps our interview could take place on an outdoor patio.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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For now and unless Williams changes his mind again, the move averts a potential historic litigation where Washington planned to sue Williams over his plan to switch schools.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Corps project averts potential catastrophic flooding that could lay siege to about 475,000 residents, California and the nation, according to the government’s court documents.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Shunts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunts. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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