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You don't need to shun your favourite coffee either just because it's hot - although too much caffeine can make the body produce more urine, and leave you dehydrated.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Nor should it shun folks from the baking community.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Totalling around 1,200 people, these include the Nicobarese as well as the Shompen, hunter-gatherers who shun contact with outsiders, who Survival describes as "one of the most isolated peoples on Earth."

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The latter needs to embrace, not shun, the former.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

“How do you explain your grades? It’s unlikely anyone is helping you. You’re brand-new, and other students naturally shun new kids, so they wouldn’t be helping you.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

She shuns luxury, is known for wearing simple white cotton sarees and flip-flops, and is called simply Didi, or older sister.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Of course, it's entirely possible that everyone has got it wrong, and Sienna Rose is a real singer who shuns the limelight.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

Kouki said he likes using his phone to watch Japanese baseball highlights, but the family now shuns screens during mealtimes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

The foundation charges rents as low as $400 in its SROs and shuns many government subsidies favored by other low-income housing landlords.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2024

And yet, whenever his pain made him harden his heart against her and bid himself, “Milk the ewe you have; why pursue what shuns you?”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Through it all, Walter mostly has shunned attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Vote counting was under way early Friday after an unusual English by-election shunned by mainstream parties, pitting influential hard-right leader Nigel Farage against Count Binface, a man with a rubbish bin on his head.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

That ascendance has ratcheted up pressure on corporate leaders to take meetings with a party that many of them previously shunned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

But the sell-out event, which cost £44 a ticket, shunned the long-standing belief that red wine is only properly served when at room temperature.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

“Soon it will be time for me to sing. After that, I’ll either be surrounded by worshiping music lovers or be shunned by all.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Brazil's finance minister is shunning the gathering amid tensions with the Trump administration.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Traditionally, he says, men "almost need a bit of a scare" to start trying to shed the pounds, seeing it as something private and shunning the more social approach some women prefer, like slimming clubs.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Buyers are also largely shunning markets in the Sun Belt, which has led to price cuts across many metro areas, particularly in Florida and Texas.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Other topics we delve into include the workers shunning the AI revolution, sperm health and how to get your kids to love golf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

These secret warriors often wore the clothes of ordinary men and women, deliberately blending into crowds and shunning the attention showered on the heroes of other wars.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau