Example Sentences

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"Increases in speed of processing have sometimes come at the expense of the quality of decisions, and improvements in one area have shunted problems elsewhere."

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Most people would have shunted this stuff out of sight, never to be mentioned again.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2019

The biggest soft-drink companies have shunted off the product to a little-known and little-loved class of carbonated drinks: the midcalorie soda.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2014

If the process could be as simple as Baulieu and Randall suggest, private physicians, who have shunted off the majority of abortions on clinics, might be willing to perform them again.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Leo did not shirk the arduous task of superintending the transit in person, a task which the most conscientious of bailiffs would willingly have shunted on to the shoulders of others.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann