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  • noun Plural form of shrugger.

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Examples

  • Nadim Houry, HRW's affable and thoughtful Beirut office chief, wears the look of a man who is growing tired of exposing awful truths to shoulder shruggers.

    Patrick Galey: Note to MDWs: Don't Come to Lebanon 2010

  • Nadim Houry, HRW's affable and thoughtful Beirut office chief, wears the look of a man who is growing tired of exposing awful truths to shoulder shruggers.

    Patrick Galey: Note to MDWs: Don't Come to Lebanon 2010

  • One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely.

    Hype Hype Hoorah! Hal Duncan 2006

  • One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • I guess the shruggers were right: $800 isn't that big of a deal after all!

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Pinging the libertarians, shruggers, and Missourians!!

    Latest Articles 2009

  • China was going to spend this money on infrastructure anyway, the shruggers said.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

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