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    Shrug \Shrug\ (shr[u^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shrugged}
    (shr[u^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrugging} (shr[u^]g"g[i^]ng).]
    [Probably akin to shrink, p. p. shrunk; cf. Dan. skrugge,
    skrukke, to stoop, dial. Sw. skrukka, skruga, to crouch.]
    To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of
    expressing doubt, indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.

    He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
    --Addison.

    1. Bond prices finished narrowly mixed Tuesday as the market shrugged off new reports on trade and industrial production and looked toward Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before Congress.
    2. That level was briefly exceeded yesterday as the market continued to defy bearish fundamentals and shrugged off a further rise in exchange warehouse stocks to a nine-year high.
    3. An administration official who briefed reporters on the package earlier shrugged off questions about why the domestic market was being treated differently than the imports when the weapons have the same firpower.
    4. Analysts had been expecting write-downs in the quarter, but the amount of the charges was larger than some expected. Nonetheless, investors shrugged off the news.
    5. But, having shrugged off the 1987 stock market crash, Strong/Corneliuson got caught in another financial debacle: the 1989 collapse of takeover stocks and high-yielding junk bonds.
    6. Traders shrugged off predictions of scattered showers today and Friday in the Farm Belt, where drought-stressed soybean crops are struggling to produce and fill bean pods.
    7. Five directors sold shares recently, but the previous co-ordinated sales have been shrugged off by the market. William Baird, the textile group, has enjoyed a tremendous run since the announcement of results at the beginning of April.
    8. News that Britain's annual inflation rate rose to 7.7 percent in November from 7.3 percent in October was shrugged off by the market.
    9. "We have done what we can," Galan told the mother. "The rest is up to God." Asked later whether he believed in God, he shrugged and said: "No." In three days, the boy was dead.
    10. Though parliamentary elections are due in June, Jakarta shrugged off popular moves such as spending boosts in favor of continued cooling of the overheated economy and repaying debt faster.
    11. Gold prices shrugged off the news of the strike vote, and posted slight declines.
    12. Wall Street shrugged off the latest bad news from Japan, and the U.S. stock market closed higher Monday despite the Tokyo market's second-worst drop ever.
    13. Havel shrugged off a question on whether he was concerned that the Persian Gulf crisis was draining away money that could have been used to help support his country's ailing economy.
    14. White House Chief of Staff John Sununu on Tuesday shrugged off the idea that President Bush was hurting his image by vacationing during the Mideast standoff with Iraq.
    15. The market also shrugged off positive factors, such as higher bond prices and a slowdown in monetary growth in September, traders said.
    16. Asked later whether it wasn't disingenuous of him to claim he couldn't understand Brady's lack of warmth toward him in light of his statements, von Raab simply shrugged, smiled and walked away.
    17. In London, stocks were lower, though they shrugged off bearish sentiment that had considerably damped the market early in the session to post a gradual climb from midday minimums.
    18. Bond and stock investors shrugged off the consumer price report that showed an increase of 0.2% last month, slightly below what economists expected.
    19. Bond prices slipped Tuesday in light trading as the market shrugged off news that growth in the nation's housing market dropped to its slowest pace since the last recession.
    20. The dollar surged against other major currencies amid a growing threat of political instability in the Soviet Union. U.S. markets mostly shrugged off the developments.
    21. But Mr. Goldie-Scot shrugged off the possibility of a takeover threat from the publisher.
    22. THE announcement by British Airways that it had pulled out of its plan to take a Dollars 750m stake in USAir was expected and the share price shrugged off the news.
    23. George Bush shrugged off the numbers and said, "You know me, I don't believe those polls." The candidates launched their final weekend of campaigning amid a blizzard of pre-election polls.
    24. "The Poles mistrust us greatly, and, we think, without reason," shrugged a senior West German official.
    25. Johnson Matthey, the world's largest platinum refiner, on Wednesday reiterated its bullish forecasts and top company officials shrugged off suggestions that the company acted improperly in not disclosing its advance knowledge of the device.
    26. The market shrugged off a sharp rise in British inflation.
    27. The market easily shrugged off worries about a sharp widening in the August U.S. trade deficit, brokers said.
    28. House and Senate negotiators shrugged off a veto threat and rejected the administration's elaborate plan for raising and spending the funds.
    29. However, investors mostly shrugged off yesterday's news that retail sales rose a slim 0.4% in June.
    30. So far, hog traders have shrugged off reports that random testing by Japan detected sulfamethazine residues in a June shipment of U.S. pork.
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