shunt
verb (used with object)
to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
has shunted
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present perfectof shunt (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Skid row has long been the downtown zone where Los Angeles has shunted services for its most destitute.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
And he has shunted himself into a different closet: Almost no one knows he’s a vampire.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
They also suggest that Psyche’s strangely low density can be explained if it still has a rocky mantle layer, and ferrovolcanism has shunted metals up from the deep interior onto the surface.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2019
Meanwhile, the jam-packed field has shunted seven candidates out of the main debate and into an undercard.
From Time ● Aug. 5, 2015
"I say, Tony, Chimpanzee has shunted to three's—only a fraction's difference now between him and Moonbeam," he was murmuring.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
