as in to avoid
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
just a ruse to shun the debt collectors
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Recent Examples of shun
Tucker claims in his lawsuit that Spitzer and others quashed the probe and then fired the investigator as an act of retaliation, leaving him humiliated and shunned by law enforcement.
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Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
Intel has, to this point, shunned Pluton in favor of its business-only vPro security system, but that could always change.
—PC Magazine, 2 June 2025
These counties, once thriving hubs of coal production which fueled not only Maryland, but much of our great nation, have been, today, relegated to obscurity as coal has been shunned in favor of alternative — or otherwise deemed sustainable — energy sources.
—Daniel A.c. McBride, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
—Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
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Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
Intel has, to this point, shunned Pluton in favor of its business-only vPro security system, but that could always change.
—PC Magazine, 2 June 2025
These counties, once thriving hubs of coal production which fueled not only Maryland, but much of our great nation, have been, today, relegated to obscurity as coal has been shunned in favor of alternative — or otherwise deemed sustainable — energy sources.
—Daniel A.c. McBride, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
—Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shun
Verb
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The team’s careful planning and early outreach helped avoid problems in the future, like having to replace important music in post-production – something that simply wasn’t an option here.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Yet Trump held his fire, in part because of an effort to avoid an escalation that would trigger Musk to declare all-out war against Republican lawmakers weighing the future of a bill essential to his entire agenda, according to two White House officials.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
16 June 2025
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Hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down across Israel beginning Saturday night, some of them evading the country's sophisticated defense systems.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
15 June 2025
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The individual then escaped, believed to have escaped outside the back of the house.—
Mandy Taheri
Peter Aitken
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Heat escapes its atmosphere so quickly that, were one to stand at its equator at noon with skin exposed — not a great idea!—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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“Shun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shun. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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