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The e-commerce and cloud-computing company was shrugging off an Amazon Web Services outage that took down many major internet services on Monday to climb 0.5% to $217.52 in the premarket.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

In Kyiv, Zelenskyy was shrugging off a traffic collision the previous night that left him with no major injuries, officials said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Saoirse Ronan asked, pointing at Timothée Chalamet, who had just joined us at the table and was shrugging off his coat.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2018

Thursday and was shrugging off the snowstorm as just another winter day in New England.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

The man she was addressing, a horse trader, was shrugging and spreading his hands.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman