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Example sentences for: shunned

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Being a reporter all my life, I have naturally shunned any side-taking.
Meinungsfreiheit is a term both regimes clearly shunned; I suppose in a sense it was liberated.
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
Yesterday Milosevic reiterated his staunch refusal to withdraw forces from Kosovo--"even if the price is bombing"--and shunned meetings with American diplomats.
So far, English speakers have shunned calling anything they say an idiotism, so the ambiguity remains.)