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  • verb Present participle of shrug.

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Examples

  • As for kids shrugging them off I said *shrugging* John, they still remember them from all the interviews I’ve heard.

    Mark Foley’s Upcoming Personal Disclosures « Whatever 2006

  • Instead releasing everything at Christmas, then walking away from a title shrugging there shoulders wondering why there game hasn't sold as well as they thought, when they've released it the same time as a dozen other decent titles.

    Eurogamer 2009

  • So Mr. Burnett is not being delusional in shrugging off the hysteria surrounding his start.

    With A.J. Signing, Yankees Can't Avoid the Consequences Brian Costa 2010

  • Some departments hastily and explicitly school impressionable reporters in shrugging off scoops by other news organizations, with the reassuring but dangerously outmoded Times maxim "It's not news until we say it's news."

    My Times 2004

  • Some departments hastily and explicitly school impressionable reporters in shrugging off scoops by other news organizations, with the reassuring but dangerously outmoded Times maxim "It's not news until we say it's news."

    My Times 2004

  • Some departments hastily and explicitly school impressionable reporters in shrugging off scoops by other news organizations, with the reassuring but dangerously outmoded Times maxim "It's not news until we say it's news."

    My Times 2004

  • The Obama administration was kind of shrugging this thing off as last year's business.

    CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009 2009

  • COOPER: It's interesting though, the Obama administration was kind of shrugging this thing off as last year's business.

    CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009 2009

  • And that of course is what's leaving investors kind of shrugging their shoulders what are we doing today.

    CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2008 2008

  • In any case, this book suggested that one aspect of resilience among many was being the tiniest bit sociopathic, in that the resilient child could move on successfully from trauma by kind of shrugging off and forgetting about the experience and not being stuck in a place of dehabilitating anxiety.

    Firedoglake » May Is National Foster Care Month… 2006

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