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Treasury yields moved higher then amid fears that global investors were shunning U.S. assets and that inflation would ramp up.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

Jury deliberations proved tense last week as well, when one juror said others were "shunning" one member of the panel, calling it "playground stuff".

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

Around a decade ago, many newspaper articles and research papers noted that the millennial generation — often defined as those born between 1981 and 1996 — were shunning cars.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

Barrack played an integral role in the 2016 campaign as a top fundraiser at a time when many other Republicans were shunning the upstart candidate before directing Trump’s inauguration.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Even before Symbolics hired away most of the AI Lab's hacker staff, Stallman says many of the hackers who later joined Symbolics were shunning him.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam