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At 23, he was shunning calypso parties and giving private Arabic lessons in his neighborhood here in Enterprise, about 20 miles south of Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017

On our return we realised he was shunning his regular toys in favour of the Motorbike Game.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2014

It was "shunning," or treating the offender as if he were dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

It’s funny: the whole time she was shunning me, I was fixated on her charm bracelet.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Scythrop was anxious to learn her history; but she would add nothing to what she had already communicated, that she was shunning an atrocious persecution.

From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love