Michelle Alexander

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

American Writer

Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

American First Lady

Winnie Byanyima

We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Ugandan Politician

Dick Van Dyke

Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.

American Actor

Layla Moran

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

British Politician

Use 'shunt' when an object is physically moved aside, often on rails or tracks.

Physical Movement

'Shunt' implies deliberate action, not accidental.

Intentional Action

Using 'shunt' can suggest disruption or an inconvenience caused.

Disruption Implication

In medical terms, 'shunt' means creating a passage between body parts.

Medical Context

A medical 'shunt' is typically used for long-term treatment, not a quick fix.

Long-term Solution

Use 'shunt' to imply someone was moved to a less influential role or place.

Professional Downgrade

Being 'shunted' can be neutral, not always a demotion or punishment.

Not Always Negative

Shunting can interrupt a career path or progress temporarily.

Career Interruption

 about the things that are going to change the world of tomorrow," you'd get a blank stare. I know, because when I wrote this book, I talked to 150 people, many from the science and tech side, who felt like they were being shunted off to the kids' table. Meanwhile, on the tech side, we have lots of wonderful people creating wonderful things,

How fear drives American...

 Now, wizards regard all this as hooey. They see it as a recipe for narrowness, regression, and global poverty. Prophet-style agriculture, they say, only extends the human footprint and shunts more people into low-wage agricultural labor. Those neighborhood-run solar facilities, they sound great,

How will we survive when...

 When you're in an fMRI scanner, you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas. When an area of the brain is active, meaning a neural area is active, it gets blood flow shunted to that area. That blood flow causes an increase in local blood to that area

Charles Limb: Your brain...

 when you're in an fMRI scanner you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas when an area of the brain is active meaning areas act if it gets blood flow shunted to that area that blood flow causes an increase in local blood to that area

Your brain on improv -...

 And I knew that that was blood shunting, when the blood rushes away from your extremities to provide oxygen to your vital organs. At 11 minutes I started feeling throbbing sensations in my legs, and my lips started to feel really strange.

How I held my breath for...

 blood being shunted away from our extremities and into the larger muscle groups because if we needed to escape it would be necessary those organs be heavily involved the world has changed and threats typically aren't as

How Fear and Anxiety...

 let's please just consider doing the actual ocular reading, okay? And also, how many people have your emotional shunts engaged? Right. Please toggle them off. Okay?

Sarah Jones: One woman,...

 despite the shunt in his chest, this boy wielded a Power Rangers sword and went after life with so much energy and an ear-to-ear grin.

Live Drawings of the...

 holds his own then he makes a small mistake shunted aside his challenge is brutally ended

Best Animal Mating...

 Then he makes a small mistake. Shunted aside, his challenge is brutally ended.