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So often, character-driven games like Mass Effect will shunt you from quest to quest, giving you very little time to do what you really came for — to just hang out with your pals.

From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2022

So often, character-driven games like Mass Effect will shunt you from quest to quest, giving you very little time to do what you really came for — to just hang out with your pals.

From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2022

That will shunt the jet stream northward, steering mid-latitude storm systems up into Canada.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2021

Volvo will shunt progress forward worldwide on genuinely high-speed charging points, as well as battery production and research and development into battery storage.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2017

COMPETITION.—A good government will shunt men into productive activities, and it will insist upon the fulfilment of lawful contracts.

From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross