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
For Albanese, there’s something especially sad about Australian kids shunning some of the world’s highest rates of sunshine for the artificial glare of screens.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
Canadian consumers are boycotting U.S. products, and tourists from the rest of the world are likely to shun the United States.
—Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2025
So it was shunned, taxed, and villainized, likened to cigarettes and made a synecdoche for America’s broken food system, in which empty calories are easier and cheaper to obtain than nutritionally dense foods.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
These women, once shunned by their communities, now have a platform to rebuild their lives through community tourism.
—Emily Lapointe, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2025
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
Canadian consumers are boycotting U.S. products, and tourists from the rest of the world are likely to shun the United States.
—Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2025
So it was shunned, taxed, and villainized, likened to cigarettes and made a synecdoche for America’s broken food system, in which empty calories are easier and cheaper to obtain than nutritionally dense foods.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
These women, once shunned by their communities, now have a platform to rebuild their lives through community tourism.
—Emily Lapointe, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shun
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Houston threw numbers behind the ball for most of the game to avoid getting hit by the deadly counterattacks and transitions KC has been known for.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2025
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Get to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid windows.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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The key benefits of integration include: • Enhanced Threat Detection: By unifying security tools, organizations can achieve a holistic view of their threat landscape, enabling the identification of sophisticated attacks that might evade stand-alone systems.—
Bob Kruse,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2025
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While they were gone, the tiny dog escaped and sprinted off into the wilderness.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
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Behind the Tigers’ strong start is Gleyber Torres’ subtle leadership Cade Cunningham, Pistons can’t escape growing pains that come with NBA playoffs Colton Pouncy is a staff writer for The Athletic covering the Detroit Lions.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Shun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shun. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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