I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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aside
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The army had whole gay battalions who they just shunted aside and let be.
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I did what I could to reassure him, but once the operation began, I was shunted aside and forgotten.
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But effectively, both he and Negroponte had been shunted aside .
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The leftists have lost much of their political might as their leaders have died, retired or been shunted aside .
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Both Zoia and Nicu showed early promise in mathematics and teachers or professors too blind to recognize it were shunted aside .
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The moral benefits of simple living were eventually shunted aside by the tactics of the emergent advertising industry.
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All the patience and calm expectations that the Niners promised for the season of Mariucci I seemed to be shunted aside .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Blood is shunted to the liver, where it can be filtered.
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I'm sick of being shunted from one department to another.
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The company's solution to dealing with incompetent staff seems to be to shunt them into clerical jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A train of thought shunted its way through Hugh's mind.
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For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
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He had been shunted into a side-line and was now out of the mainstream traffic for good.
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I did what I could to reassure him, but once the operation began, I was shunted aside and forgotten.
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In such arteriovenous malformations, much of the oxygenated arterial blood is shunted directly into the veins without ever traversing the capillaries.
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She then returned to back into the siding and collected her own carriages, shunting them back into Holyhead Station!
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Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help the citizens of a nation.
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The army had whole gay battalions who they just shunted aside and let be.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy.
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Predictably, this meant there was no first corner shunt in the slightly damp conditions.
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Should this particular complication occur after creation of a successful shunt , it can be improved as described for patient 6.
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Some linear systems have the control element connected in shunt rather than in series with the supply, see Fig. 2.
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Subsequent modifications in the technique resulted in long term maintenance of shunt patency and infrequent migration of the internal stents.
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Thankfully only minor shunts so far and the tow bar has taken the impacts.
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The shunt happened as she turned into the drive of Ludgrove School, at Wokingham, Berks.
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The peritoneovenous shunt is an established method of palliation for intractable benign and malignant ascites.