as in avoids
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 shuns
This strategy shuns grand openings, favoring subtle engagement and long-term commitment, guiding future US growth.
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Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Altman is a booster for San Francisco, advising its mayor and expanding OpenAI’s offices here, while Musk shuns the city and now lives in Texas.
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David Ingram,
NBC news,
26 Apr. 2026
Mitski lies on the lawn looking at the girl leaving her, like the witch in Into the Woods when Rapunzel shuns her and then gets promptly trampled by a giant.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
The unfortunate truth is that the agency has lost its way and shuns innovation.
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Ross Marchand,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2026
Vanya is a closeted gay man who shuns intimacy and Sonia is a neurotic spinster who feels unnoticed and unloved.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
Laugh is the kind of rap mastery that shuns maximalism for pristine, unadorned poetics.
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Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
29 Aug. 2025
Instead of a tale of entrapment or escape, Ruth is a story about how a woman full of longing can operate inside a collective that shuns the very notion of wanting.
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Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Altman is a booster for San Francisco, advising its mayor and expanding OpenAI’s offices here, while Musk shuns the city and now lives in Texas.
—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
26 Apr. 2026
Mitski lies on the lawn looking at the girl leaving her, like the witch in Into the Woods when Rapunzel shuns her and then gets promptly trampled by a giant.
—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
The unfortunate truth is that the agency has lost its way and shuns innovation.
—
Ross Marchand,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2026
Vanya is a closeted gay man who shuns intimacy and Sonia is a neurotic spinster who feels unnoticed and unloved.
—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
Laugh is the kind of rap mastery that shuns maximalism for pristine, unadorned poetics.
—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
29 Aug. 2025
Instead of a tale of entrapment or escape, Ruth is a story about how a woman full of longing can operate inside a collective that shuns the very notion of wanting.
—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shuns
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New research has now demonstrated a simpler approach that avoids the ultrathin selective coatings traditionally considered essential for precise molecular separation.
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The decision avoids an election-year change in the voting rules and may bolster Democrats in the fall election.
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If the armed forces are the instrument through which the president evades the Constitution, then the leaders of those armed forces must answer for their role.
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Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
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The highest technology will not be the one that escapes nature but the one that learns how to participate in its deepest creative computation.
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On clear, dry nights — like those across much of the interior West — that heat escapes very efficiently into space.
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“Shuns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shuns. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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